Description

A Gentle nose, herbal, fragrant red fruit - wild strawberries and griotte cherries. Deliciously drinkable and juicy - a joyous young Grenache with a riot of succulent, crunchy cranberry fruit and a savoury freshness that immediately calls for another glass.

A very easy-going red that can be drunk on its own, but try it with white fish, or tomato dishes.

The Bee-Side is Domaine of the Bee's second label wine, made from 100% Grenache. Much of the fruit now comes from Jean-Marc Lafage’s Grenache vines, blended with a barrel or two of our oak-aged 'pale red' from the Domaine of the Bee vines. The result is a bright, juicy, 'smashable' wine ideally served lightly chilled.

"Every year, some barrels turn out lighter than others, and sometimes we bleed juice from our Grenache to concentrate the flavours. We collect the juice, now a pale red, and ferment it without the skins. Then we blend a barrel or two with some of Jean-Marc's Grenache, some of which was fermented with 'whole bunches', and the rest with some carbonic maceration, as they do in Beaujolais. The result is a delicious, gluggable red."

(Tamlyn Curran, jancisrobinson.com)