2010 Vin de Pays du Gard Rouge, Roc d'Anglade

Langlade is known to those of a literary bent as the home, for over thirty years, of Lawrence Durrell. To those who also know their wines, it has been the home for a similar length of time to an affable reformed computer scientist by the name of Rémy Pédrano, who took it upon himself to rescue a famous winemaking region which had been ravaged by the phylloxera disease a century previously.

The enthusiasm and energy of the man suggests that the change of career was a wise one. The transition was assisted in no small measure by our old friend René Rostaing of Côte Rôtie who was originally Remy’s landlord. Rostaing has bought elsewhere and now M Pédréno is his own master. A champion of indigenous varieties, especially Carignan, Remy eschews intervention in both the vines and the winery.

His yields are naturally low, so green harvesting an similar ‘compensatory ‘ techniques are unnecessary and in the winery maceration is gentle and not forced by sometimes brutal techniques such as delestage, popular elsewhere in the parish. The wood, unsurprisingly, is not new and the wine is allowed a leisurely 16 months to gather its wits in a decorous and harmonious fashion.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer