BRISSONNET ROUGE

Description & Press Reviews:
This is a soft, fresh and powerfully aromatic red bursting with ripe flavours of ripe cherries, violets, dark chocolate and blackberries.  Made from the Maccabeau grape which is used in Rioja, the vins doux naturels of Banyuls and in the fabled Vega Sicilia in the Ribera del Duero (one of Winston Churchill’s favourite wines).  This really is a must for your more tomato based dishes as it is super with barbecued meats as well as pizzas, pastas, as well as barbequed meats, cheeses and Indian, Thai and Chinese meals. 

Livingit.com - Paula Goddard
"Smaller wine merchants have reacted more quickly to customers’ need for less alcoholic wines. Nearly half of Bordeaux Undiscovered wines have an alcoholic strength of 12% or under. Owner and ex-chef Nick Stephens believes “higher alcohol wines fight with the food”. “You end up not enjoying the food or the wine. A wine with lower alcohol levels tastes fruitier and it brings out the flavours of many foods.”

Nick enjoys drinking his wine as well as selling it - “I want to enjoy wine: I don’t just want a glass, I want three” - but finds it difficult to drink more than one glass of highly alcoholic wine as they “burn as they go down”. “To me drinking high alcohol wines are like drinking spirits: they numb the mouth and close the taste buds down.” He adds “Would you drink scotch with your roast sirloin of beef?”

Brissonnet Tinto, Vino de Mesa
A light and fruity wine that still has enough body to cope with most red meat dishes.

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