Maceration of weeks allowed the wine to gain some tannic structure. For the rest, no barrel to maintain the maximum...

From Michel Chapoutier's project in the Pyrenees, this is a much more Euro shiraz - drier, leaner, savoury, peppery...

A fine and zesty, light and firm, reductive/grapefruit-tinged example, but it works here. Tannins are fine-grained...