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Your intrepid imbiber and Charles Pacaud
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Hélène and I have just returned from a most arduous (and some times freezing) visit to southern France. While there we attended the bi-annual ViniSud wine extravaganza in delightful Montpellier where we met up with our old friend Charles Pacaud, owner of Domaine La Croix Chaptal.
While I was assiduously tasting his latest vintages (as wonderful as ever) Charles mentioned that he had “found” a pallet of 2006 Les Terrasses du Larzac. How does one lose 600 bottles I wondered as I kept on slurping? “Wait a minute,” I said. “Let me try a bit of that lost wine.”
It was terrific – in top nick and fully ready to drink! “Charles, my friend, give us a good price and we’ll take it all.” So, he did and thus we are delighted to offer you the splendid 2006 Les Terrasses du Larzac for only $21 the bottle.
A Little Background
Charles Pacaud makes very good, very serious wines from the best part of the AOC Côteaux du Languedoc – the sub appellation known as Les Terrasses du Larzac. His wines regularly appear in the ‘Wine Spectator’, receiving high eighty and ninety point ratings. See our original Newsletter for more information about Charles and his winery.
Enjoy the Languedoc, from Andrew Jefford: Decanter January 2009 (pg 21)
"...Geologically, the Languedoc hills are a synopsis of everything which makes France so propitious for winegrowing... Surely in any other country, those Languedoc hills would have been a star region; their misfortune was to find themselves sharing a nation with Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Loire and the Rhône. And, too far from Paris.
But where is the best spot in the Languedoc? My theory is that Terrasses du Larzac is the greatest spot in the Languedoc... Stone and slopes alone don't make for great wine - as much of Provence proves - but when skilled winegrowers grapple intelligently and sensitively with nature here, the results seem to me to have the same aromatic, textural potential as the best of the Rhône..."
2006 was a very good year in the Languedoc. This wine comes in convenient six-bottle cases. We will be taking your orders to the LCBO this coming Friday, March 2nd.
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