La Maison du Vin – A new wine shop in Pézenas
Pézenas is
increasingly well served for good wine shops.
Just up the road from Le Wine Shop at 59 avenue de Verdun is la Maison
du Vin, which opened its doors in mid-August.
I was passing the other day, and popped in for a browse. The first thing I saw was an Oenomat in which
Aurélien Carron offers a choice of some 20 different wines. Depending on the bottle price of the wine, a
tasting sample will cost you 90cts or
1.80€. I think this is a great idea for
a wine shop; you could just go for a
tasting, and it would certainly save you from buying something you
turned out not to like, and would most certainly encourage a new discovery or
two. Naturally Aurélien is focusing on
the Languedoc, including some pretty upmarket names such Domaine la Peyre Rose
and Borie-la Vitarèle; not for him the cheaper end of the region. And there also wines from hors region. He had just taken delivery of a small
grower’s champagne, and was planning on some Chablis from Domaine Grossot, and
maybe Billaud-Simon. I usually find it
hard to resist buying something in a wine shop, and this time was no exception. I came away with a bottle labelled very
simply and intriguing: Vin de Table, and
then in small print Vin de France, made by Catherine Bernard in the village of
Castelnau de Lez. Aurélien explained
that it is a pure Carignan; with part of the cuvée made like a red wine, and
the other half as a rosé, with the two components blended together. Drink it slightly chilled, he suggested, so
we did and found it to be fresh and fruity, with some original flavours.
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