Vin de Pays Catalan: Grenache 2009
Description
The Empreinte du Temps Vin de Pays Catalan is a rich, slightly oxidative, straw coloured wine with a complex palate of dried fruits, nuts and sherry-like undertones prior to a gently warming, long, resonant end note.
- Style: White Wine, Dry (Sec), Medium-bodied
- Region: Roussillon, Vin de Pays Catalan,
- Producer: Denis Ferrer & Bruno Ribière
- Vintage: 2008
- Grape variety (Cépage): Grenache Blanc
- Wine pairing - drink with: Olives, Smoked Fish, Charcuterie
- Cellarage: Drinking well now but will age well in the medium term, 2-5 years from vintage.
- Vinification: Low yields of hand harvested, organically grown (but yet to be certified) grapes from 77 year-old vines, are fully de-stemmed before being vinified in used oak barrels and vats. 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): 13.5%
- Full Tasting Notes (PDF): Download
Vin de Pays Catalan: Grenache 2009
The highly idiosyncratic Ferrer-Ribière Vin de Pays Catalan: Grenache Blanc is a wine that would chill the blood of most commercial wine buyers as it is deliberately oxidative with sherry-like scents and tastes underscored by a mineral-edged acidity. Surprisingly, it works well with Catalonian cuisine - olives, anchovies, peppers and home-cured saussicon sec spring to mind!