Moulin de Gassac Picpoul de Pinet 2018 75cl Borsao together with Chianti

together with Chianti

and the jammy fruit quality just keeps coming on

By using barrels with new French oak staves and new American oak barrel ends

the smell of a freshly mown cricket pitch in summer

largely with clay-limestone and sand soils

Moulin de Gassac Picpoul de Pinet 2018 75cl Borsao together with ChiantiPicpoul is unusual for France in that it is a varietally named appellation. It is an old variety that can trace itself back to the Middle Ages. It has been grown all over southern France and indeed appears in the Chateauneuf du Pape melange! Most of the Picpoul (also spelt Piquepoul) is grown in vineyards behind the Basin de Thou and the city of Sete around the town of Pinet, south of Montellier. It received its AOC only in 2013. The estate was