Routas 1999 Carignane

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It (carignane) can make a good quality wine (although it is used more for blends, in southern France and in its native Spain), but only if the yields are severely limited; it easily overcrops. A big part of the European Union's former "wine lake" of excess production was vin du table wine from the south of France made mostly from, you guessed it, carignane. Many of those over-producing vines have been grubbed up in the last decade.

The Routas is a fine example of what the grape can achieve in the right hands.

Cheers,

Scoop