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Home Shop Wine Domaine Plaisance Penavayre Le Pitchou 2019

Domaine Plaisance Penavayre Le Pitchou 2019

About This Drink

Plenty of flavour, with fruit and spices and a touch rustic, but in a noble way.

A wine for every season, but that excels paired with meat and pecorino style cheeses.

Original price was: €27.50.Current price is: €22.00.

5 in stock

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Grape VarietalNegrette, Syrah

Origin / RegionFrance

Production MethodBiodynamic

Story

Dedicated to his son Thibault (Pitchou means ‘the little one’ in Occitan, but Thibault is now 6ft7…) this wine is made with the traditional Negrette/Syrah blen. Negrette is a grape typical of the Fronton region, and as the name gives away is richly coloured and with violet aromas and a juicy, plummy palate.

Producer

Château Plaisance Penavayre covers 30 hectares of certified organic (now in biodynamic conversion) vineyards on terraces above the Tarn valley, about 35km north of Toulouse. The soils in Fronton are characterised by boulbènes – acidic, sandy-gravel mixes also seen further north in Bordeaux – but on the terraces, the soils are particularly poor and gravelly, forcing the vines to dig deep for water and restricting yields. The domaine was established in 1971 by Louis Penavayre, although the Penavayre family have been cultivating vines in the area for generations. The estate is now run by Marc together with his son Thibault, and together they adopted an increasingly holistic approach to winemaking.

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