Just picked up a few today for £6.94 seemed rude not to.
Always like trying unknown producers, not many notes on CT either ??

Some extra data found on BK wine.

There are some 10 hectares of vineyard mainly on the hillside. The vineyards lie surrounded by the Languedoc landscape with garrigue bush vegetation, forests, truffles land and fields. The soils are mainly of the type called “villafranchien”; it is old volcanic soil (basalt). The vineyards are planted with a variety of grapes, typical of the Languedoc and adapted to its soil and terroir: syrah, grenache, mourvèdre, cinsaut, oeillade and carignan for the red wines. The white wines are made from grenache blanc, and roussanne. Domaine Lacroix Vanel is now in organic farming – the conversion started in 2007 with Ecocert.

Domaine Lacroix Vanel uses very little “intervention” in the winemaking. Usually fermentation is done with the natural yeasts. Some soft punching down, and moderate extraction fro the reds during the fermentation. Exactly how the vinification is done varies and depends on the vintage.

Jean-Pierre Vanel is also a music lover so the wines of Domaine Lacroix Vanel have names that sometimes relate to music: Fine Amor, Ma Non Troppo, Natura Rerum, Melanie, E Blanc.

http://www.domainelacroix-vanel.com/

Anyone tried his wines ??
Regards
Richard

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Where's this from? Sounds great.

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Q. The vineyards lie surrounded by the Languedoc landscape with garrigue bush vegetation

The grape varieties that are native to that area give us a clue...... south west of Tavel ? Let me see - South of Avignon, go east to Cotes du Ventoux and Luberon. Go west and you find the Languedoc.

Richard ? Can you be more specific

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Badly phrased Q perhaps - where can one buy it?

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Yep,

Fair enough Viog, Good Q. - Richard ?

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Chaps,

Hi, bought from Costco for £6.94 incl Vat which is rather good value.
I would add a £ sign if I knew how !!! lol

Sampled one over two nights !! really interesting freshness and zip to the wine.
Not for the long haul I would guess ??

Regards
Richard

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Here you go

Message body on the left - Go to Emoticons (Emo Icons)

View more Emoticons
Place the curser where you want the icon, Pick the £ sign by a mouse click - Job done.

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Duncan

Thanks Dunc !!

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