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Domaine Jones Hairy Grenache 2021
Red Wine from France - Languedoc - Roussillon
Katie Jones comes from Leicestershire but makes wine in the Languedoc-Roussillon. This particular was supposed to be grenache but it turns out it's a rare, rot resistant variant called lledoner pelut. Happily has used to it to great effect, making an outrageously delicious barbecue-friendly red.
Original price:
£13.50
Sale price:
£11.95
Bottle
Original price:
£81.00
Sale price:
£71.50
Case of 6
In Stock
Code: FC42091
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Full-bodied
- Grenache/Garnacha
- 75cl
- Drinking now
- 14% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, natural
Domaine Jones
Domaine Jones has only been in existence since 2008 and despite its tiny output (fewer than 16,000 bottles) and the fact that its owner Katie had never made wine before, it has already won international acclaim. Wine Society buyer Marcel Orford-Williams has followed her career from the beginning, and says that Katie ‘is a one-off.’
Originally from Ashby de la Zouch, Katie moved to the tiny village of Paziols (population c500) 20 years ago, ‘beguiled’ by the beauty of the scenery, the charm of the villages and the warmth of the people. She took up a position with the local Mont Tauch Co-op, one of the more dynamic in the region, and stayed for 16 years before buying her first 2.5-hectare vineyard in 2008, in Maury, intending to use it for gardening and, like almost everyone else in the village, to sell the grapes to the co-op. It was well-priced and planted with gnarled old vines that yielded too low to be of interest to most growers intending to sell grapes.
She thought she was getting a vineyard of grenache noir but found, when the vines flowered the following spring, that she had also acquired grenache gris, muscat and carignan. This land is tough, remote and at altitude amid crags and just beneath the Cathar fortress of Queribus, surrounded by wild garrigue and consisting of black schist that is notoriously hard to cultivate.
So having taken the plunge and given up her job she set out to make wine. She acquired a 200-year-old stone building which she christened ‘The...