Chat Fou, Éric Texier (1.5L ‘Bagnum’)

• Vintage: 2021
  
• Origin: Ardèche, Northern Rhone Valley, France

• Taste guide: A vibrant, red-fruited beauty from the Ardèche bursting with crunchy cherry and a touch of spice - fresh and utterly joyful, perfect for easy sipping... we really enjoyed this! (Tasted Dec '24)
• Unoaked wine
• Wine Bag 150cl (equivalent of 2 ‘normal’ bottles) - 12.5% - Plastic Tap to pour

• Food pairing: Grilled lamb and/or a roasted aubergine dish

• Great Vivino score of 4.0

Declassified to Vin de France, as opposed to the more usual Côtes-du-Rhône due to its production method: a blend of 55% Grenache, 30% Cinsault and 15% Clairette from south-facing, granite and gneiss slopes in the Ardèche.

All fruit is organic, harvested by hand, partly de-stemmed and co-fermented with native yeasts in open-top concrete tanks. As with all Texier wines, no extraction techniques are employed, aged in concrete for 12-18 months, unfined, unfiltered and bottled with only the smallest amount of sulphur.

This 'crazy cat' wine has a real cult following, the blend of red and white grapes producing a joyfully bright wine, with crunchy red fruit, beautiful texture from the concrete fermentation, and incredible purity and drinking pleasure.

RRP for one bottle is circa £20 so the equivalent retail for 150cl would be £40, hence the RRP stated above.

Our price equates to just £9 for a ‘normal’ 75cl bottle!!!

Prominent flavours are Cherry, Strawberry and Plum with a hint of cinnamon spice. Dry, fresh, light-medium bodied and very moreish!