Katie Jones La Gare Old Vine Syrah 2020
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About the wine
Expensive tasting, expensive looking Syrah... at Languedoc prices
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This is a very small production wine from some of our top vineyards - a really rather special wine. It’s made using grapes from our oldest Syrah vines in the village of Tuchan. The production of these vines is tiny and so we only make a small amount of this wine each year.
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We pick all the grapes by hand and make the wine in small vats before ageing some of it in oak barrels. The yields are so low that the wine has a lovely balance and concentration. Deliciously rich and soft at the same time with mulberry fruits, liquorice, spice and brambles. The oak is present but so well integrated that it adds another dimension to the wine.
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This is a style of wine more reminiscent of the Rhone than the Languedoc and it would be a lot more expensive there. It really shows the potential of old vines here in the Languedoc, especially when they are looked after like we look after them.
Katie, Winemaker
Best before
Drink now to 2025
Serving advice
Serve at 16-18°C. Open/Decant 1+ hours before serving
Food match
A juicy entrecôtes, frites! Or go vegan with vegan Shepherd's pie lentils and chickpeas
Contains sulphites
Always check the label
France
Languedoc-Roussillon
Syrah | Shiraz
Big Red
14.5% ABV
75cl
Vegan
Vegetarian
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Katie Jones
- Katie’s love of wine led her all the way from Leicestershire to the Languedoc where she bought an idyllic vineyard perched half-way up a hill in Tuchan. In 2013 she experienced every winemaker’s worst nightmare when vandals emptied her entire year’s vintage down the drain.
- She turned to us. And 2,500 Angels helped to get her back on her feet - clubbing together to raise over £200k in just 48 hours. Our Queen of the Languedoc was able to start again and has gone on to make some seriously delicious wines, with sparkly awards a plenty.
- Thanks to her beloved Angels, Katie has been able to nab more hilltop vineyards, expand her range and even move her winemaking operation into an old railway station to fit in more barrels. It’s a long way from the 600 cases of wine she made in her garage in 2009!
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