Autour de L'Anne 'MDXV' Rouge 2020 Gifts

Autour de L'Anne 'MDXV' Rouge 2020 GiftsAnne Paillet's wines are much fresher and more drinkable than a lot of what you'll find in the Languedoc Roussillon; in style they're patterend more after the Loire Valley than those of the typically hefty southern French regions. MDXV is always 100% Carignan grown on limestone and red clay, put in concrete tanks to ferment and bottled with no fining, filtering, or added SO2. Vibrant fruit, medium body and with a sense of southern rusticity and charm.

doesn’t pile

That last grape is what gives this wine its color

making wines solely with local grape varieties

but also a clear evocation of the rural heart of France

one of the bottles we've drank the most of over the last few years

with less sweetness

and 7% of a Franco-American hybrid called Isabella

bursting with supple citrus and melon fruits

wild cherry bark

A gin unlike any other we know

playing down the bitter qualities of the tannin

dried lemon peel