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Cuvee Rouge Chateau Routas

Cuvée Rouge, Château Routas

£14.00

13.5% | 750ml

In stock

Tasting Notes

The Château Routas red wine blend has a beautiful structure with silky tannins, nicely balanced with freshness. The nose reveals notes of black fruits, chocolate and spices. The complex palate has notes of cherry, raspberry and vanilla.

Food Pairing

This wine would pair beautifully with a Sunday roast with all the trimmings.

Winemaking

Château Routas red comes from a rigorous plot selection of old vines planted on hillsides. The harvest is carried out by hand in order to select the best bunches. The grapes are destemmed, crushed then vatted for 3 weeks. The Syrah, Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon are fermented separately to reveal the diversity of the estate’s terroirs. During fermentation, long pumping over allows aromas, tannins and colour to be extracted. After racking and devatting, the Syrah is put into 2-year-old barrels and aged on fine lees for 12 months with stirring (bâtonnage) to gain roundness. The Grenache and Cabernet are blended and aged in microporous ovoid tank in order to refine the tannins.

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ABOUT THE PRODUCER

The 290 hectare Estate of Chateau Routas is located in the Var hinterland, nestled between the old town of Aix-en-Provence, and the white sand beaches that line the Gulf de Saint Tropez. At an altitude of 250 to 270 meters, the estate benefits from a regional microclimate, with lower temperatures than the surrounding area in winter and overnight in summer. The cool terroir and the clay-limestone soils allow a slow maturation of the grapes, which results in balanced wines with a beautiful aromatic freshness. The south-east to south-west exposure allows optimal phenolic maturity. Château Routas  is part of the Coteaux Varois en Provence appellation.

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