I made this simple Vin de France wine of the week after glugging almost an entire bottle of it on my own one evening this week!<\/p>\n
One\u00a0of Charles’ new finds in the Rh\u00f4ne valley, from a relatively unknown and very small\u00a0producer in Ch\u00e2teaneuf (although they do make it into Bob Parker’s Wine Advocate),\u00a0‘Le Petit Roy’ is simply a Vin de France because it is made up of eveything that does not make it into the\u00a0Ch\u00e2teaneuf cuv\u00e9es, and as such carries no vintage on the label, only ’11eme ann\u00e9e’ which is a clue I guess.<\/p>\n
It\u00a0is deceptively easy to drink, packed with ripe peppery fruit\u00a0and a lovely, almost old-fashioned, ‘liquidity’, making it so very gluggable. In fact it was only having finished the bottle and looking over the rather quaint and\u00a0old-fashioned label that I noticed that it is 14.5%.\u00a0This really is streets ahead of the mass produced super-market Ch\u00e2teaneufs, and I will be drinking this rather a lot over the coming barbeque season.<\/p>\n
It makes you sleep very soundly too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I made this simple Vin de France wine of the week after glugging almost an entire bottle of it on my own one evening this week! One\u00a0of Charles’ new finds in the Rh\u00f4ne valley, from a relatively unknown and very small\u00a0producer in Ch\u00e2teaneuf (although they do make it into Bob Parker’s Wine Advocate),\u00a0‘Le Petit Roy’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-rhone"],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"\n