Cotes du Rhone Passion d` Anselme Brotte

Cotes du Rhone Passion d'Anselme

Cotes du Rhone Passion d` Anselme is aged for 7 months in oak barrels before bottling.

Scent: Blackberries and slightly wet soil are noticeable here.
plike: Well balanced with red berries, leather and a little sweetness from barrel ageing.
Server for: Game, red meat delicacies and cheese.

Serving temperature 16-18°C.

The wine:

Cotes du Rhone Passion d` Anselme grapes are harvested fully ripe in September, fermentation lasts for 10 days and takes place at a temperature that does not exceed 30°C. The wine is then aged for 7 months in oak casks before being bottled. Côtes du Rhône Villages are legally subject to strict rules: The vines are pruned so that the harvest yield is max. 42 hl per ha, the alcohol strength must be at least 12.5%. The final wine must be analyzed and approved at a mandatory tasting by the Rhône Committee before it is released for sale.

Wine house and area:

The Rhône Valley in France is known for delivering high quality wines with good power and strength. The climate, the soil and not least the choice of the right grapes give lovely wines with a good structure, a pleasant warmth and a good personality. The Grenache grape dominates the barren lands and produces wines with good structure. What shows the winemaker's skill here is how he chooses to mix with the area's other local grapes. Syrah, Mouvedre and Carignan are just some of a wide range of grapes he can work with. The climate in the Rhone valley is warm and the only coolness is the cool mistral wind that blows through the valley in the afternoon. This has the effect that the grapes are cooled down and become more intense in taste.

The grapes for Côtes du Rhône Villages, Passion d'Anselme, come from selected fields in the departments of Gard and Vaucluse, where the soil is composed of gravel and sand on the flat stretches, on the slopes it consists of clay and lime. The lands are planted with the region's traditional grape varieties: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cinsault, Counoise and Muscardin.