Château Fabre Gasparets Languedoc "Cuvée les 3 André" - 50cl, NV

Exceptional and Rare Oxidised Vin Doux Naturel From the Languedoc Region

Amber robe, the nose is strong and spicy with notes of nut and plumb. The long lasting taste is rich and complex with hints of mocha and orange zest. An exceptional wine.

"The colour of carnelian. Smells earthy, dried blood and dried cherries, baharat spice and sumac and cinnamon. Fills the mouth with the silvery sound-spice of snare drums, a wine that you taste with your spine, every vertebra set into tiny vibrations. Mocha and dark marmalade, manuka honey and apricot jam cooked down to toffee brown. Damson jam
stirred into Indian chai with the taste of red earth and dust and coconut fibres. So silky in texture that it slips off the tongue before you ven have a chance to hold it in your mouth. Intense and sweet and yet the coffee-spice-earth meridians drive it to a
dried-thyme dry herbaceous finish. Spectacular. Despite being a sweet wine, I would look to savoury food to pair it with. It was wonderful with biltong. I'd love to try it with a chicory, walnut and Baron Bigod salad, drizzled with molasses."
-Tamlyn Currin

• 18/20 Jancis Robinson
• 600 bottles per year
• 100% Grenache

Food Pairing: As an aperitif, with tapas or salted anchovies or after a good meal between friends. Perfect wine to accompany a good cigar.

Cellaring: 25 Years

BEHIND THE WINE

Manual harvest with careful selection of grapes. Traditional press, vinification before being mutated by addition of a distillated grape alcohol. Oxidation process of this special wine, with one year out in big bottles called dame Jeanne, and then many years blended with previous vintages in a pyramid of barrels called solera.