Tom Cannavan of wine-pages.com chooses the Montgravet, Pays d’Oc Cabernet Merlot 2010 from France as his Wine of the Week for 18th September 2011
This week’s fine of the week is a really useful little red wine because it’s easy to drink it’s food friendly and it’s deliciously syllable too so it kind of works for a multitude of occasions the wine in question is the monger Evette 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot it comes
From the South of France from the longer dock region and it’s in Waitrose at four pounds maintain aim now the way there’s a blend of 70% Cabernet 30% merlot from down there in the South but the winemaker Allen green Young says he has sought out some of the cooler vineyards
To make this wine and on the nose well it smells pretty right I mean there’s a lot of black fruit and cassie’s here I can a nice creaminess to but there is a little rhubarb a beetroot II can a slightly green streak that suggests the grapes are not fully ripe and that can
Be a really attractive thing in these Bordeaux style blends it’s absolutely classic on the palate well here’s juicy there’s plenty of fruit there’s loads of black fruit in here those blackberries those plum there is that creaminess again a little touch of oak in this wine gives that a nice
Kind of underpinning of that slightly creamy slightly oatmeal equality but it does have an edge of tannin an edge of acidity and that little edge of that kind of be true tea flavor like slightly green flavor which actually works really well it makes the wine easy to sip it’s
Not complicated but it also makes it much well with food I put this with lamb chop – grilled lamb chops maybe with a really good-quality burger it’s that kind of thing and nothing too complicated there’s not gonna knock your socks off but a high quality wine for
Four pounds 99 easy to sip easy to help with food it’s the Mong cravette 2010 Cabernet Merlot it’s in which was at four pounds ninety-nine and it’s my wine of the week