Pech de Calade 2006

Fabulously rich, spicy French rarity with creamy apricot and spicy peach flavours.

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Tasting note
Colour - Mid gold hue.

Aroma - Herby and minerally with hints of almond and honeysuckle.

Taste - Rich and mouthfilling, with blossom, honey, citrus and peach notes.

Type:Still White Wine	Country:France	Appellation:Oc VdP
Grape Type:Marsanne	Drink Before:June 2009	Style:Dry	Body:Medium Bodied
Alcohol:12.5%	Bottle Size:75cl	Bottle Code:26181

Serving suggestions
This aromatic, peach-laden white is delicious on its own or with sauced white meats, salmon, or a simple risotto. The cellar recommends Cantal cheese and quiche too. Drink by mid-2009.

Description
Marsanne is a rare white variety slowly gaining in popularity at the expense of its blending partner Roussanne. Originally from the Rhône, Marsanne is also now planted in southern France and a few places in the New World, namely California and Australia.

Indeed, Australia has some of the oldest plantings of this grape in the world and uses it to great effect to produce weighty, spiced whites as well as rich, unctuous fortified wines in Victoria. Nearer to home, it is one of only two white grapes allowed in the white northern Rhône wines, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and Saint-Joseph and is also used in the south, particularly in white Châteauneufs!

Pech de Calade comes from a cellar close to the medieval, fortified town of Carcassonne and takes its name from the location of the vineyard: pech, meaning 'little hill' and Calade being the name of its lieu-dit. The cellar is extremely quality-conscious and has gone to great lengths to pinpoint the most suitable terroir for its Marsanne grapes and all the others that it grows.

Concours Mondial Bruxelles 2007, Belgium