AOP Costières de Nîmes Château Philippe Lamour Red

The standing of Château Lamour dates back to the 13th century. It was a Mecca for hunting under the Capetian rule, and King Louis IX of France. After the World War II, the famous resistant Philippe Lamour gave to the estate a second life. Located in the town of Bellegarde between Nîmes and Arles, Château Saint-Louis La Perdrix stretches over an unbroken 50-hectare vineyard and 7 hectares of olive trees. The sandstone cobbles in the soil provide for optimal grape ripening, which eventually allows us to produce some of the greatest Rhone Valley's wines.

Carignan grape bunches are picked manually using crates, and full grapes (without destemming) are placed into stainless steel tanks to make the wine. Syrah and Grenache varieties are harvested once optimally ripe, destemmed before being vinified in cylindrical stainless steel  tanks  in  a  temperature controlled  environment. The wine is then blended and aged into traditional concrete tanks in a temperate cellar. Blend : 45% Grenache / 35% Syrah / 20% Carignan

This is a deep, red wine with purplish red cerise reflections. Its intense nose expresses soft fruit and spice aromas. A smooth, structured attack on the palate is followed with a delicate yet forceful melted-tannin sensation.