Mas des Capitelles Faugeres Rouge VV 2022

Andy Says: "By 1884, the French wine world was deep into the devastation of phylloxera, the root eating aphid that wiped out vineyards across the country. Wines from regions including Bordeaux and Burgundy became scarce, and Paris turned increasingly to the South of France and even Spain to keep the cafés and bistros supplied. Those southern wines were often rustic and inconsistent, but the bad days are long gone.

Mas des Capitelles is based near the village of Faugères in Languedoc-Roussillon. The warm, dry climate there encourages full ripeness, giving the wines a more generous, fruit forward character than their northern counterpart. A blend of Mourvèdre, Carignan and Syrah, this bottle delivers black cherry, plum, licorice, iron, blueberry and a touch of sunbaked earth. It's a stye of wine that would have been familiar to Madame X in 1884 but is significantly better."