l’Engoulevent is a Yannick word, referring to a bird that flies open-mouthed through the air eating insects. This wine is also from the Saint Chinian area in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.The 2006 is 45% Grenache, 35% Carignan, 15% Syrah and 5% Cinsault. 20% of it is aged in one and two year French oak.
Aromatic notes of blackberry, cassis with some resin, pine and rubber on the nose. Ripe and meaty fruit with some darker fruit componets of black cherry, raspberry and plum with prominent herbaceous, black licorice and smoky mineral notes. Also some funky green vegetables that made me think I might be drinking a Cabernet Franc.
14% alcohol. Imported by Hand Picked Selections — and soon to be imported by Louis/Dressner Selections. I liked this, but I would opt for a Breton Chinon Beaumont, a wine I enjoyed more and priced at about $10 less a bottle. For a little more money, I would give a nod to Yannick Pelletier’s Coccigrues over this wine.
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