https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/languedoc-wines-cool-down
Dans le Languedoc, les héros de la fraîcheur sont le Domaine Begude, Famille Fabre, Aubert et Mathieu, Mas Combarèla et Mas des Brousses.
Famille Fabre, Château de Luc Les Jumelles 2020 Corbières
Full bottle 1,272 g. Certified Ecocert organic. Roussanne and Grenache Blanc vinified on fine lees.
Thyme, gorse and hawthorn blossom. Pears, grainy pear-skin texture, granite dust. An elegant, quietly composed, beautifully rendered expression of white Corbières. Fine acidity leading to a long, sure finish. (TC)
13.5%
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Famille Fabre, Grande Courtade L’Instant Rare Alvarinho 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,151 g. Certified Ecocert organic.
Smells a little bit like pear drops, pineapple-flavoured boiled sweets and green olives. Dry and sea-purslane salty and herby. Crunchy. Not complex or long, but super-refreshing. (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Grande Courtade L’Instant Sauvignon Blanc 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,277 g. In conversion to organic certification.
A really decent Sauvignon. Packed with ripe gooseberries and the sweet green pop of juicy, fresh sugarsnap peas. Really fills the mouth with brightness. (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Domaine de Luc L’Instant Rare Viognier 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,165 g. Certified Ecocert organic.
Plump peaches, almonds and white flowers traced with delicate pale-green acidity. A friendly, well-balanced, entry-level Viognier. Presumably GV. (TC)
13.5%
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Famille Fabre, Grande Courtade L’Instant Rare Chardonnay 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,151 g. Certified Ecocert organic.
Dry and clean with a little bit of oak-tasting spice but not a great deal of fruit. A bit short. I’d go for the Grande Courtade Alvarinho and Sauvignon Blanc over this. (TC)
13%
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Famille Fabre, Ch Fabre Gasparets Parcelle Rare Les Amouries Rosé 2020 Corbières
Full bottle 1,389 g.
Rose-hip pink and I am just loving the grip, earthiness, vitality and bold expression of this rosé. This is cracking delicious! Guava and rose petals, paprika and then into a cool, long, tongue-tip lick of wet iron and cold pebbles. There is a frisson of wasabi, and something refreshing that reminds me of cucumber slices in cold water. But above all else, this grippy little rosé has sass. (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Grande Courtade L’Instant Rosé 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,221 g. Clear glass. Certified Ecocert organic.
Tastes like a slice of watermelon dipped in white pepper and sour cream and sprinkled with chopped lovage. Delicious. A dab of residual sugar, I suspect, but it works. Good length. It was absolutely superb with Butlers’ Kidderton Ash goat’s cheese. (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Château de Luc Les Jumelles 2021 Languedoc
Full bottle 1,221 g. Clear glass. Certified Ecocert organic.
Smells like strawberry yogurt with fresh basil leaves and sorrel. A delicate woodsy note threading through light, pithy raspberry fruit. Peach skin, a sliver of guava, soft greens. Tiny sprinkle of pepper on the finish. So refreshing! (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Tour de Rieux L’Instant Rare Cinsault 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,157 g. Certified Ecocert organic. No added sulphites.
Pale red. Classic raw-beef, bloody Cinsault on the nose. Slate dust and sour cherries, rust and sumac. Slip-slide tannins, like tight red-leather trousers. Cinsault at its most raw, tousled, unplugged. Chill and drink with a cheeky chilli! (TC)
13.5%
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Famille Fabre, Grande Courtade L’Instant 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,281 g. In conversion to organic certification. Malbec and Syrah blend.
Fresh, dark, rose-petal-scented fruit. Maraschino cherries in syrup. Friendly, generous and open with a crack of black pepper, the black sweetness of mulberries, the bitter green of pine needles and a crack of black pepper. (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Château Coulon Éole 2021 Languedoc
Full bottle 1,278 g. Certified Ecocert organic.
Edgy. Medicinal, menthol, hawthorn berry, chicory root. Sumac. Tannins that feel like the rough-smooth of wet loamy earth. This has a slow, minor-key sway filled with bitter beauty. Listen to Cynthia Erivo, Stand Up. (TC)
13.5%
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Famille Fabre, Domaine de Luc L’Instant Rare Syrah/Viognier 2021 IGP Pays d’Oc
Full bottle 1,158 g.
A ‘purple’ wine – tastes like Fanta grape and Concorde jelly and liquorice Jelly Beans. Teeny fine-dust-grained tannins and pert acidity. Breezy easy. The kind of wine to chill and drink with smoked, bourbon-marinated ribs at a barbecue. (TC)
12.5%
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Famille Fabre, Grande Courtade L’Instant Rare Pinot Noir 2021 Vin de France
Full bottle 1,151 g. Certified Ecocert organic.
Light, confected red-berry flavours. A simple, fault-free Pinot without a particular sense of place or purpose. (TC)
12.5%