Wine of the month January 2009

The appelation Minervois is one of my favorites french vineyard sites, especially from "La Livinière". The wines from the South of France are showing generally a great range of flavors underlined with subtle minerality.

The wine of the month January 2009 is from Domaine de Courbissac named "Pandora". Unlike the famous box this wine is not evil at all. It showed gorgeous fruit and minerality on the nose. As the wine is Syrah based one can find a bunch of different herbs and spices on the palate.

Domaine de Courbissac "Pandora" 2006 - very good - €15 (La Cave) - La Livinière

more infos: La Cave and Domaine de Courbissac