Vin de Pays Catalan: Empreinte du Temps Carignan 2007
Description
Catalan Carignan with appealing aromas of wild herbs and dark berries precede a wonderfully pitchy palate with dense, briary sloe and damson tastes.
- Style: Red Wine, Dry (Sec), Medium-bodied
- Region: Roussillon, Vin de Pays Catalan,
- Producer: Denis Ferrer & Bruno Ribière
- Vintage: 2007
- Grape variety (Cépage): Carignan
- Wine pairing - drink with: Lamb, Game
- Cellarage: Drinking well now but will age well in the medium term, 2-4 years from vintage.
- Vinification: Low yields of hand harvested, organically grown (but yet to be certified) grapes from antique vines undergo a 3 week cuvaison with their stems intact. The wine is cleared by careful decanting and is bottled during a waning moon when the Tramontane wind arrives in April.
- Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 14%
- Full Tasting Notes (PDF): Download
What others think of this wine...
Andrew Neather, London Evening Standard 11/11/10 says:Up the road in Terrats, Bruno Ribière showed me his Domaine Ferrer-Ribière Empreinte du Temps Carignan 2007, which benefits from a frequent factor here: very old vines. This is from vines planted in 1877: it's huge, full of baked fruit with scents of the garrigue and lovely minerality. His Tradition 2007, Côtes du Roussillon is excellent too.
Natasha Hughes in Food and Travel magazine, October 2010 says:(The Domaine Ferrer-Ribière, Vin de Pays Catalan Empreinte du Temps Carignan 2007) Offers rich damson fruit spiked with aromatic hillside herbs. You might want to open a bottle
next time you’re roasting a leg of lamb with
rosemary and garlic.
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