Fruity & Powerful

Château de Ciffre Grand Vin

Red wine | Lorgeril Vineyards, Faugères AOP

The wine of great moments!
The Grand Vin of Château de Ciffre expresses captivating aromas of black fruits and truffle supported by scents of cloves and white pepper. A superb nose! The palate is in the same style, with its very fine tannins and its contained power. The Lorgeril family has been growing vines since 1620 in Languedoc, and it shows in this great red wine, to be kept for a few years, and brought out for special occasions!

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France Languedoc
Syrah
Grenache
Mourvèdre
5 - 8 years
14.00% vol.

Profile

Strength
Complexity
Fruitiness
Tannic
Liveliness
Wooded
Spicy

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Château de Ciffre Grand Vin

28.00 CHF/bt

28.00 CHF/bt /bt

Colour

Very dark, dark garnet, with almost black reflections.

Nose

Powerful and intense, dominated by aromas of black fruits and truffle, supported by scents of spices (clove and white pepper).

Palate

Fleshy and massive, with very fine tannins, beautiful harmony.

Wine-growing region

The Château de Ciffre vineyard extends over 35 hectares 25 km northwest of Béziers. On the foothills of the Haut-Languedoc Natural Park, the vines plunge their roots into a subsoil of shale and limestone. The high altitude terroirs are those whose nighttime freshness allows for gentle maturation to offer the most elegant expression of aromas.

Winemaking

Manual harvest and sorting, vatting for 35 to 40 days, favoring the greatest gentleness in extractions. Malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels. Aged in oak barrels for 12 to 14 months.

Bottle closure

Cork

Packaging

Wooden box

Maison Lorgeril

An independent family house created in 1620, Maison Lorgeril owns wine estates in the south of France between the Rhône and the Pyrenees. Since 1987, Nicolas de Lorgeril, representative of the 10th generation of this family of winegrowers, and his wife Miren de Lorgeril have brilliantly managed the vast family vineyard.

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