Domaine d'Aupilhac, Pays d'Herault, Les Servieres, Un Siecle de Cinsault 2012 Tempranillo with perfumed notes of crème

with perfumed notes of crème de cassis

marmalade and cassis

Consulting winemaker Craig Williams (formerly of Joseph Phelps) surprised me by bringing a bottle of the 1974 Mayacamas Cabernet to lunch recently

zesty acidity

two Pinot gris

Domaine d'Aupilhac, Pays d'Herault, Les Servieres, Un Siecle de Cinsault 2012 Tempranillo with perfumed notes of crèmeInto Neck; Kermit Lynch Import slips 100% Cinsault, aged in small foudres for fourteen months, sourced from terraced vineyards that are Ecocert and Demeter certified. Three generations of Fadats have farmed the large, eighteen hectare lieu dit known as Aupilhac, in the village of Montpeyroux, across the river Hrault from Daumas Gassac and Grange des Pres. While the Fadats have farmed this land since the nineteenth century, and the vineyards date even