Chateau Grand Moulin Gres de Boutenac 2021
95 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team
“A long vatting of 40 days for this blend of the four great grape varieties of the appellation, aged 12 months in barrels, hence this nose which combines candied red fruits and vanilla notes. Perfectly balanced, fleshy and structured by beautiful, coated tannins, this is a Corbières that’s most harmonious, intense and which will age gracefully.”
- Hachette Wine Guide 2024
A powerful and authentic wine, with silky tannins. From a single NW facing slope on the limestone influenced sandstone of Boutenac. Sheared by the wind, the old Carignan and Mourvèdre reveal the typicity of an exceptional terroir. Aged 12 months in French oak.
The history of Château Grand Moulin begins in 1985 when Jean-Noël Bousquet left working in a Co-op with a vision to make great wine. He set up his private cellar on the site of an old mill in Lézignan, in the heart of Corbières in Languedoc. Since then, his son Frédéric has taken over and offers a wide range of great Corbières wines, offering all the richness and diversity of the estate’s different terroirs. The Château Grand Moulin estate has over 200 plots of vines spread over 130 hectares, across 5 municipalities all within a radius of 10km. They have been recognised for their high-quality potential and classified as Corbières AOC and Corbières Boutenac AOC. They cultivate the region's classic grapes, namely Syrah, Grenache, Carignan, Mourvèdre, and Cinsault for the red wines and Vermentino, Grenache and Roussanne for the white.
ABV: 14%