Château La Sauvageonne Rouge

The Gérard Bertrand group is the spearhead of a winegrowing committed to a better future led by its founder, the eponymous winegrower. With the Languedoc's benchmark biodynamic wines, they create great wines that reflect all the nuances of their terroir. Recognized for his great talent as a blender as well as for his audacity and creativity, he and his teams are working to make the wines of southern France shine throughout the world. Gérard Bertrand is one of the great visionaries of the wine world. At the age of 22, he took over his father's vineyard Château de Villemajou and over the past several decades has developed into one of the most important winemakers in France. He has used biodynamic methods in his 16 vineyards in the south of France for many years. 

Very inky colour, impenetrable, with a purple-black core. Beautiful nose, very expressive. A lot of spiciness. This displays really ripe fruit with inky dark berries, plum, blackberry, cassis, with a lot of pepperiness. There are some dried herbs with a slight touch of roasted wood. Still very youthful, indicating really high ripeness of fruit. Very good bite on the palate. Dense and powerful, yet with a soft texture. Well integrated tannin, almost powdery. Nicely underlined by new oak. It is still youthful and noticeable, but more in the direction of spicy vanilla than too much toastiness. Really good weight here. I like the spiciness a lot. I like the combination of ripeness which is balanced by a quite bright acidity. Really long finish, with hints of black pepper, liquorice. Youthful, with a good potential, but quite delicious already.