Wine Listel, "Grain de Gris", Sable de Camargue IGP
Tasting Notes
The wine is a beautiful pink color.
The taste of wine - light, refreshing, soft, fruity, with dominant shades of peach.
At the tender fruit aroma of wine felt notes of peach.
The wine is perfectly combined with goat cheese, sweet cheese, prawns in honey with ginger, bayonskoy ham, pizza, meat carpaccio, exotic cuisine dishes, white meat, lobster stew in red wine, grilled fish, fruit salads.
Interesting Facts
"Grain de Gris" - "gray" wine blend of three grape varieties - Grenache, Carignano and Senso grown on sandy soils, which give the grapes less saturated color. For the production of wine used first run juice obtained by gravity, without pressing the fruit. To give the wine a beautiful pink color, the wort is kept on the skin of a brief period of time. Very simple, refreshing, soft and light wine "Gran de Gris" perfectly combined with cheese, seafood, fish and white meats, fruit salad and many other products.
Winery "Listel" is owned by Vranken Pommery. "Fillets" owns 1400 hectares of land in the delta of the Rhone River, near the Camargue. The name "fillets" means "sand island" and is derived from the medieval French "Isle de Stel". The vineyards are planted on the economy sand deposited over the Rhone River delta in the Mediterranean Sea. The average age of the vines in some areas is 100 years old.
The history of "the sandy island" goes back to the beginning of the XV century. Pat the time, issued by King Charles VI and Charles VII, had referred to the vineyards. In our time, "fillets" - a true gem of French wine. All wines are produced on their own farms facilities. 80% of the grapes cultivated in its own estates, and only 20% is purchased from farms, which have signed long-term contracts. When you create a special wine vinification methods used to provide excellent wines that have preserved the authentic varietal character of the grape. The combination of all these techniques and technologies in the end gives the wine a very clean taste and aromatics, unique to drink "fillets".
Producer's description
Delightful Pommery estate located on a hill in the center of Reims. Below that is a system of mines, which in the Gallo-Roman times served as a quarry. Tunnels connecting them, the company received the cellar area of 18 km with ideal conditions for the storage and aging of sparkling wines. In 2002, the company bought the house Pommery Vranken Monopole, becoming the second company proizvoditelstvu sparkling wines in France.
To date, the company's products is known in more than 100 countries worldwide. Without the cooperation of Vranken-Pommery Monopole not do many European prestigious competitions and events. Love of art and impeccable style of Madame Pommery inherited and today's owners - the company was the first who began to produce champagne in elegant handbags by Christian Dior and Givenchy. In the manor held secular receptions and festivals, and in the cellars - contemporary art exhibitions.
