2013 Vacqueyras, Cuvée Floureto, Le Sang des Cailloux

2013 Vacqueyras, Cuvée Floureto, Le Sang des Cailloux

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2013 Vacqueyras, Cuvée Floureto, Le Sang des Cailloux

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This year it is Floureto’s turn to inspire the eponymous cuvée (the name rotates between Serge’s three daughters) and a very good year it is too. As usual, the blend is 70 percent Grenache and 20 percent Syrah, with small touches of Mourvèdre and Cinsault to complete the picture. Poised and elegant, the wine is a notch lower than sometimes on the alcohol barometer-no bad thing in these parts. In this instance the lower alcohol allows the exuberant black-fruit profile a full and glorious expression.
Simon Field MW - Rhône Buyer

One of the best properties in the appellation of Vacqueyras, and certainly the bestnamed, Le Sang des Cailloux is located on the limestone escarpment which divides the villages of Vacqueyras and Sarrians. The idiosyncrasy betrayed by Serge Férigoule handle-bar moustache reveals an approach to winemaking which is as individual as it is successful. His unrivalled experience allows him to compare 2013 with 1983, when there was also coulure in the Grenache, but when there were also some very nice wines made.

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Domaine le Sang des Cailloux

Domaine le Sang des Cailloux

The charismatic Serge Férigoule has, over the last two decades, done more than most to raise the profile of Vacqueyras. Located on gently ascending limestone vineyards between Vacqueyras itself and Sarrians, this evocatively named property appears, probably a little later than it ought, for the first time on our list.

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Southern Rhône Blend

Southern Rhône Blend

The vast majority of wines from the Southern Rhône are blends. There are 5 main black varieties, although others are used and the most famous wine of the region, Châteauneuf du Pape, can be made from as many as 13 different varieties. Grenache is the most important grape in the southern Rhône - it contributes alcohol, warmth and gentle juicy fruit and is an ideal base wine in the blend. Plantings of Syrah in the southern Rhône have risen dramatically in the last decade and it is an increasingly important component in blends. It rarely attains the heights that it does in the North but adds colour, backbone, tannins and soft ripe fruit to the blend.

The much-maligned Carignan has been on the retreat recently but is still included in many blends - the best old vines can add colour, body and spicy fruits. Cinsault is also backtracking but, if yields are restricted, can produce moderately well-coloured wines adding pleasant-light fruit to red and rosé blends. Finally, Mourvèdre, a grape from Bandol on the Mediterranean coast, has recently become an increasingly significant component of Southern Rhône blends - it often struggles to ripen fully but can add acidity, ripe spicy berry fruits and hints of tobacco to blends.

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