Fond Cyprès - 'Cyprès de Toi' - Rosé of Malbec - Corbières, FR - 2022
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Request a Case OrderA terrific - Food friendly - rosé that is a little bit more present than so many lesser rosé's from the area. SUBSTANCE!
VINTAGE: 2022
REGION: Langudeoc, France
APPELLATION: Corbières
GRAPES: Malbec
YEASTS: Indigenous
MACERATION: Direct press
FERMENTATION: In stainless steel, cold
stabilized
AGED IN: Stainless steel
CLARIFICATION/FILTRATION: Unfiltered/
Unfined
FARMING: Biodynamic
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 11.5%
ADDED SO2: 1ppm at bottling
SOIL: Calcareous, blue marl
From the Brigitte Bardot of Corbières and her endearing husband come the wines of Fond Cyprès, a soulful, luscious lineup of Carignan, Syrah, Grenache, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne, Viognier, Muscat, Cinsault and blends thereof.
The couple, whose real names are Laetitia Ourliac & Rodolphe Gianesini, is intent on producing wines that express their sultry slice of the Languedoc — specifically, Escales, in the northernmost part of the Corbières AOC. Their domaine begins at the end of a road lined with Cypress trees and extends in either direction across 15ha of lush vegetation, a secret garden of olives, tomatoes, eggplants, wild herbs, and newly-born kittens.
We first met Laetitia and Rodolphe in the deep, damp recesses of Cave Ackerman on a February afternoon in the Loire, and even then their wines were singing. But when we pulled up to their home in August and were greeted by bowls of freshly grilled palourdes, mussels, garlic, and parsley cooked in the juice we were about to drink, we understood their wines had made it feel like summer all along.