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Aramon is another
another old variety that was some grown around the Mediterranean basin, but particularly
in the Languedoc
part of Southern France. Planted
after phyloxera, the disease at the end of the 19th century.
Planted to creates very large volumes
of low alcohol wine, inverted commas,
When I say low alcohol, kind of six or seven percent,
which was used for
the rations for the Army, for factories
up and down France, for the police, and generally for high quantities'
It's a variety that
resembles a table grape in as much as its
its bunches are very large, and by large
like such, and the berries of which are very large as well so
sometimes its the kind of the kind of grapes that one would see almost in the
supermarket now as table grapes.
Indeed some people and used it as table grapes.
It has a very high juice ratio because the berries are so
big and the skins are so thin,
which also makes it quite fragile. It's a variety as I said that was cropped
very very highly
and harvested relatively early.
It's a very light
pale colored drink. It has a very light pale colored juice.
The skins are so think so you don't get much extraction from it anyway.
It's a variety that we've been doing experiments with over the last three to
four years.
Again, these are vines that we have in our old
Carignan parcels. And so we go through and we and pick out these
souches of Aramon. We've noticed that
if worked in a different way, so much lower yield,
and vinified really carefully, paying attention to the aromatics the
flavors and to the extraction
It gives something very delicate very interesting very mineral very tight
Light in alcohol still, so we are looking at between 11.5 and 12.5,
very drinkable red wine.