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L'effet Papillon - Rose 2023
Price: $13.99
| Producer | L'effet Papillon |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
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| Subregion | Cotes Catalanes |
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| Varietal | Rose |
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| Vintage | 2023 |
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| Sku | 05982 |
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L'effet Papillon Description
The Languedoc-Roussillon on France's Mediterranean coast forms an arc beginning west of the Rhône to the Spanish border. France's first vineyards were planted here in what is now Narbonne. By the late 1800s, the area produced 44% of France's total output of wine. Greed (and the region's relatively quick recovery from the devastation of phylloxera), transformed the region into a "wine lake," known for producing huge amounts of thin wine-often pumped up with richer, imported wines from Algeria and southern Italy. In the 1970s and early 1980s, smaller, high quality farms began producing substantial, traditional wines and the trend continues today. Appellation Côtes du Roussillon covers an area rich in Spanish and Catalan influence - Catalunya (more a cultural identification than geographic) extends from Nîmes (just southwest of Avignon), and south through Barcelona in Spain. The hot, wind-blown, sun-drenched climate and harsh soils are ideal for olives, vines and little else.
Tasting Notes: L’effet papillon Rosé 2023 comes from selected parcels of Grenache grown in the weathered schist of the Agly Valley, not far from Domaine le Roc des Anges itself. In the glass, the wine has a limpid, pale gold-pink color, which somehow seems to be illuminated from inside the glass. Aromas of yellow peaches, red cherries, tangerine zest, and lilacs move in and out of the foreground, sometimes alternating with dried lavender, sweet cream, and the cinnamon-like side of fresh green perilla as the nose evolves in the glass. On the palate, the wine is almost fleshy, yet dry and refreshing, with wild strawberries and persimmon joining the red cherries and peaches, all seasoned with fresh acidity and palpable saline minerality.
