HUGUES DE BEAUVIGNAC - Avenue de Florensac, 34810 Pomerol
In the area
around Séte on the Mediterranean coast they grow a quite unique white variety –
Picpoul – that has an appellation of itself, AOP Picpoul de Pinet. These wines
are designed to drink with the local oysters and all kinds of sea-food. It has
also another use, together with another rare
old variety – Clairette de Languedoc. They both are the basis for the famous
dry vermouth Noilly Prat, that is produced in Marseillan, on the shore of d’Etang
de Thau.
There are a
mass of producers of Picpoul de Pinet in
the area and the quality differs. We are however not the only who regard the
Picpoul from this producer to be one of the best.
The
production is mainly white wine. Besides the traditional Picpoul they make a
very interesting wine that is fermented in oak. This gives the wine a
full-bodied character that makes it perfect with more prepared and tasty fish
and sea-food dishes with sauce.
Their Viogner
and Chardonnay are beautiful wine that we always try to have a couple of
bottles of on cooling. Just recently we tried I very interesting red on a wine
fair. It was their Vin d’Une Nuit, that really was a surprise of taste and
light elegance.
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