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    WINE OF THE WEEK: Famille Lafage Miraflors Rosé 2020, Côtes Catalanes, France
    • Jul 29, 2021

    WINE OF THE WEEK: Famille Lafage Miraflors Rosé 2020, Côtes Catalanes, France

    £12.99–£13.95, Urban Grapes, Alteus Wine, Gourmet Hunters, Simply Wines Direct, All About Wine I tasted this Roussillon rosé for the second part of my Summer Rosé Round Up (coming up soon, click for Part 1 in the meantime), but was so taken with it that I'm putting the spotlight on it here first. The very pale colour gives it the look of a typical Provence rosé (as does the chic bottle), but it's more aromatic than many of its Provence counterparts, with Mediterranean herbs,
    WINE OF THE WEEK: TerraNoble Gran Reserva Carignan 2018, Maule, Chile
    • Jul 15, 2021

    WINE OF THE WEEK: TerraNoble Gran Reserva Carignan 2018, Maule, Chile

    £14.50, Vintage Cellars It's so good to see growers nurturing and valuing old Carignan vines, not just in Chile but in Lebanon and Languedoc-Roussillon. For decades, it was a grape variety so deeply out of step with consumer tastes and winemaking fashions that even old vines were pulled up, or simply neglected, and grapes from younger vineyards and sky-high yields were blended into oblivion. The fruit from old Carignan in Mediterranean climates with suitably poor soils is som
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