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Domaine Coustellier, Picpoul de Pinet, Vin de Pays
Emmanuel Coustellier
The Coustellier have been producing wines on vineyards around the Bassin de Thau for many generations, and much of their production, from 45 hectares of vineyards, is sold in bulk. Emmanuel Coustellier is now starting to bottle more wine at the domaine, and to experiment with more varietals, to produce clean, honest, easy drinking wines at very competitive prices.
This year he is very pleased with his latest experiment, 3 hectares of Marsellan, a Grenache Cabernet cross, which he picked for the first time
in 2003, and he has also produced outstanding Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc in the 2003 vintage.
The 2003 Chardonnay is soft, floral and ripe, with good
balancing acidity, and offers excellent value.
His Picpoul de Pinet is crisp, fresh and refreshingly clean, a delicious wine on a hot summer’s day to drink with oysters, and an equally agreeable quaffing wine even in the cold of winter, with any fish or shellfish. The
Rosé de Syrah is grapey, dry and seductively soft, whilst the Merlot is smooth and ripe and approachable. |