A Hearty French Red for a Cold Winter’s Night – Cahors Malbec
Filed under: Cahors wine, Cahors wine tours, Malbec Days, Malbec wine, Mas de flory, wine tours France
Cahors is the ancestral home of the Malbec grape, but the wines made there are much different from the plush, fruity versions from Argentina that are so popular now. Lagrézette is a modern winery, with superstar consultant Michel Rolland (who also works in Argentina, among many other countries) advising, so you might expect a wine in the “international” style.
But whether terroir overrides the winemaking, or age brings out the truth, this was a very traditional Cahors. It was thick on the palate, with firm, almost gritty tannins, and dark flavors of iron, earth and tobacco.
Yet the wine still showed a core of bright cherry fruit, and a lively acidity kept it fresh. It had endured more than improved, resembled a solid workman more than a brilliant virtuoso, but it matched well with the gamy meat and warmed our souls from the winter’s cold. I rated it 89 points, non-blind.
Château Lagrézette Cahors 2000
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Growing success for the wines of AOC Cahors
Filed under: black wine, Cahors wine, Cahors wine tours, France wine tours, wine tours France
TheAOC Cahors is celebrating its fortieth anniversary. After a long period of declining sales figures, the succes of the “black wines” of Cahors is growing again. The combination of increased sales efforts, leaving fallow 568 acres of vineyards and less abundant crops resulted in higher export figures in 2010.
The Scent of Black
Filed under: Cahors wine, Cahors wine tours, Foodie cycling, Truffles
Fantastic video of the Lot area and it’s food and wine.
Great video, sums up the area wonderfully. It’s difficult to describe to others the wonder of the area – this does!
GrapeRadio is proud to present a look at the Cahors region, as rightly famous for its black truffles as it is for its Malbec, a wine that exemplifies the scent of black.
http://www.graperadio.com/the-scent-of-black/
