443WBW 33: Languedoc-Roussillon Values

2007-04-25T04:14:14Z
I've been slacking on the wine blogging front, but I'm coming out again for the 33rd Wine Blogging Wednesday. By coincidence, the theme is value-priced wines from Languedoc-Roussillon at the very same time my wife is in the Midi for an international invasive species symposium. Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre is pretty much my favorite red blend, and that's a specialty of the Pic St-Loup appellation -- right in her neighborhood this week.

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1Re: WBW 33: Languedoc-Roussillon Values

Guillaume, 2007-04-25T06:34:05Z
Pic Saint-Loup is great. My favorite is Chateau de Lancyre : http://www.chateaudelancyre.com/vins/gdecuveerouge.htm Enjoy and feel Restful !

2Re: WBW 33: Languedoc-Roussillon Values

Marcus, 2007-04-25T11:02:32Z
Hey glad to hear it! (Ch de Lancyre was one of my more recent Languedoc tastings I uncorked from the region's awesome 2001 vintage.) Hope you all find a good bottle and contribute it.

3Re: WBW 33: Languedoc-Roussillon Values

Sean, 2007-04-25T14:55:51Z
Thanks for the recommendations. I'm also going to ask my wife to find something unique that we can't get here in Colorado, like a Mourvèdre varietal.

4Re: WBW 33: Languedoc-Roussillon Values

Sean, 2007-05-03T20:34:17Z
Well, no pure Mourvèdre came home with my wife, but she did bring back a couple bottles of good blog fodder. Also a Hortus Grand Cuvée Pic Saint-Loup and a Château Puech-Haut Tête de Bélier Rouge that are a bit outside the bargain price range.

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