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The tasting |
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Lovely garnet colour. |
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Honest and generous on the nose, aromas of red berries, smoky and spicy. |
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Powerful and smooth on the palate, the wine is remarkable in its balance and freshness. |
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The sommelier's advice |
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Serve between 16 and 18°C. Decant 1 hour before drinking. |
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Provençal stew, filet of beef with morel mushrooms. |
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Enjoy up to and including 2014 |
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The estate and the wine |
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The beauty and wild nature of the Hautes-Corbières landscapes attracted Bruno and Fabienne to this region in 1990. They took over an existing wine growing business and started to produce quality wines with a passion. Since then they have built up a 50 hectares estate of garrigue scrubland and vines, restoring buildings in which they installed their winery. |
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The 2008 En Sol Majeur wine from the Domaine du Grand Arc shows a taut, vigorous texture on the palate. It is certainly the estate's most powerful wine, with nice balance and freshness on the palate. A true, sincere, unique expression of the Grenache, attracting and flickering with a thousand lights. |
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Hand harvested, traditional vinification, de-stalked, cold stabulation, 30 to 35 days maceration. 12 months aging in oak cask of 3 to 400 litres of which 50% are new. Yield: 35 hl/ha. |
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AWARDS |
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Les Meilleurs Vins de France 2011 : 16/20 |
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