Description
The schistous foothills of the Cévennes mountain range, at the southeastern flank of the Massif Central, look down from significant altitudes on the Languedoc plain below and the city of Béziers, just a few miles to the south. Here, we find the appellation of Faugères, in which the Mediterranean varieties Carignan, Mourvèdre, Syrah, and Grenache speak a punchy and iron-laced dialect. We at Rosenthal Wine Merchant have long cherished our islands of special terroir within the Languedoc’s vast ocean: Oliver Jullien’s lyrical, masterful creations from the high slopes of the Terrasses du Larzac; Vincent and Isabelle Goumard’s precise, refreshing reds from that same limestone-dominated zone; and the Gibert family’s boisterously rustic Corbières from the foothills of Mont Alaric, to name but a few. It is with great pleasure, then, that we present our first foray into the rugged hills of Faugères.
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