Tasting Notes

100% Merlot - Expressive, surprising wine with good fruit, a spicy nose and deep colour, drinks well.

Best with pork or cheese.

Wine Information

Vintage 2020
Region Languedoc-Roussillon
Appellation Côtes de Prouilhe
Style Red
Producer Chateau de Cointes
Grapes 100% Merlot
Pairing Cheese, Pork
Keeping Drink within 5 years of bottling.
Vinification Traditional vinification, maceration of short duration, with 17 days of fermentation.
Bottle 75cl
Volume 14.0%


Chateau de Cointes

Chateau de Cointes

The vineyard is situated south of the fortified city of Carcassonne in south-west France, Anne and Francois (he's a GP during the week and grower at the weekend), have taken over the vineyard from their family, who established the business twenty years ago.

They produce a range of single-grapes wines, as well as more complex whites and reds. This vineyard is in the Cotes de la Malepere - so permitted grapes include Bordeaux varieties such as Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, as well as Mediterranean grapes such as Syrah and Grenache.