£6.50 (Wine Society).
The label suggests syrah and perhaps cabernet savignon? Yet the WS spiel claims mostly syrah with some mourvedre. In any case, the nose is highly savoury - dried black olives is the closest I can get.
Palette is velvety, slightly herby. This seems to be a common feature of the syrah/shiraz I've been exploring recently and it has much to recommend it. Not a million miles from the more moderate malbecs?
Interesting that the spiel says that it's made with 'a nod to the southern Rhone'. I can't detect any Rhone like flavour (no bad thing) but you feel that they need to write that to get people interested. In 20 years time perhaps they won't need any cross dressing and 'Languedoc style' will have a cachet of its own?
This is produced in Nezignan-L'Eveque which we must have driven passed many times on our way to Agde, Valras-Plage etc: it seems to be equidistant from Tourbes and Pezenas.
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