Chateau Bonhomme, Mademoiselle, Minervois, 2017, France
South West France produce lots of wine and this blend of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan and Cinsault from Chateau Bonhomme is half decent. Bold, dry and plenty of tannins. There’s spice, oak and lots of red fruit on the nose that come through on the flavour and are join with plum and pepper notes.
Its a good wine which needs food to really balance out some of the harshness. Steak or tomato based foods are the ones to go for with this red.
A blend of Mourvedre, Syrah, Grenache and Carignan this is a southern french blend, plain and simple. Black fruit, spice, medium tannins and pretty dry. Actually really dry and firm tannins when you take the second glug of this wine. You get a smokyness on the palette but its subtle, there’s some red fruit that then comes in after. These second flavours get lost when this is drunk with food but I think I prefer it with food, usual steak and chips type of food.
At £10 a bottle this is pretty good value.
Chateau Cabezac, Petit Arthur 2017, Minervois, Languedoc Roussillon, France