Estabel La Grande Cuvee 2017

Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

Elegantly fruited and sweetly expressed, the bouquet shows plum, stone fruit, apple and floral notes, leading to a succulent palate that is flavoursome and nicely rounded. The wine offers charming fruit flavours together with elegant savoury notes, finishing long and crisp. Enticing and refined. 

About the wine

Estabel Grande Cuvee is a pale pink colour. This blend of Cinsault, Grenache and Syrah grapes is fine, mineral and fruity on the nose with cherry aromas and a touch of vanilla softening its complexity. Very immediate and balanced mouthfeel, this wine is well-rounded, supple, fruity and fleshy with a beautiful lingering freshness.

Excellent with charcuterie, grilled meat and white meat.

About L’Estabel

Located in the heart of the Hérault near Béziers, the vineyards of the terroir of Cabrières are scattered in a natural amphitheater on the sunny foothills of the lower Cevennes. From the eighth century, historians testify to the presence of this vineyard in Languedoc with its 380 hectares spread among vast scrubland and wood. Here the shale soils have developed in a region where the geology is complicated and because of this, they are of different types: more or less stony, more or less clay or limestone, with or without iron, thin or thick and able to retain water or be traversed by the roots of plants and vines.

Because of its uniqueness, the region has a denomination of its own: AOP Languedoc Cabrières. Created in 1937, the winery today has an average harvest of 15,000 hl on about twenty farms.

The Royal Legend

His Majesty, the Sun King, heard one morning that a clergyman of the south was making a wine with surprising therapeutic effects, called "the wine of L'Estabel". It was then that he immediately sent for the prior to come to court and present his famous wine with best aroma and a wonderful pink color. It was to serve as a cure, a fortifying for the people of the court and the city and given from the hands of one of the greatest kings of France. The Sun King also asked the prior for his secret, which was revealed to him by making him promise to keep it until he died. The king promised and, during his ministrations, did not hold back from strengthening himself by partaking in a few quaffs.