Jo-Ann Ross, a certified French wine scholar, recently led a tasting
on Languedoc AOC wines at the Wine Sense store in Andover, located
across from Whole Foods.
This is the oxyton symbol that they put right on the people and carry the symbol over here over here so how about some people Peak pool let’s see how let’s see if everybody if you don’t pass the test you have to take another sample okay so Peak
Pool in the occitane language means lip Stinger so you’ll taste this and you’ll say oh this is really a little different let me try it again because we had it open so you’ll taste this one and you’ll notice that it has a little bit more body a little bit more heft
A little bit more aroma it’s just a little bit further north and it’s a little bit Hillier there you said if you like Pinot oh we wouldn’t have liked the one that’s right but this is even more full body than normal yes yes so we’re really we’re in
Syrah Grenache territory I like to tell people that these wines are like cooked their own wines Caked Up A Notch yes so the grapes in this are Grenache Saran move ever this is a GSM brand so if you see a blanket de la mu I give
It a go there you’re going to spend maybe 12 to 15 a bottle but generally for the grand menu that Sam usually carries it’s mostly Chardonnay a little bit of Pinot Noir a little bit of Shannon Blanc and then maybe a little bit of mozak would be the combination the Mosaic is
An interesting grape it tastes like a granny smith apple so when you have mozak it’s almost like drinking a dry apple cider the interesting thing too the next question would be well how can if champagne is all the way up it’s 80 miles east of Paris how can you get sparkling wine
This far down it’s really windy and cold here so that’s how you can get sparkling wine so far south long a duck is a region for value value deliciousness and value there was an old longer duck that represented France’s wine Lake cheap cheerful plunk but now we’ve got
Quality wine Growers coming in less yield and as a result of that the deliciousness and the value has increased and we still have really wonderful wines under the twenty dollar price point you can have red white rose sparkling and they even make dessert wines too with the Muscat grape as a Vander natural
And you can buy these wines throughout Massachusetts and right here at the wine sense you can get the wine sense our fourth year of Love enter longadunk last year we sold over 6 500 bottles just about well we sold exactly 993 glasses and four boxed people and pennies in one
Month so these wines are growing in interest growing in volume all the time thank you Joanne thank you Jim