Domaine de la Rochelierre Fitou Privilège 2023
£19.95
The wine
Richly fruited with ripe berried fruit and herbal notes of rosemary, thyme, with layers of sweet liquorice and vanilla spice. Melted tannins add elegant complexity through to a long, rounded finish. A step up from the Tradition, from selected parcels and given longer in the cellar before release.
The producer
Domaine de la Rochelierre
View all Domaine de la Rochelierre winesThe Fabre family have grown wine for four generations at Domaine de la Rochelierre, fifteen hectares in the village of Fitou itself. Since 1979 the estate has followed the Methode Cousinie, an organic approach built on farming without chemicals and on treating the land as something to be handed on rather than used up. Jean-Marie Fabre was joined in 2008 by Emilie, who comes from a winegrowing family in the Rhône, and the domaine gained HVE certification in 2017. A new cellar followed in 2015, built around energy-saving processes. Fitou is the oldest appellation in the Languedoc, granted in 1948, and sits in two separate pockets between Narbonne and Perpignan. Old Carignan is its backbone.






