It's not often that the prestigious Penin Guide, Spain's most highly regarded wine review compendium, gives 88 points to such an inexpensive wine, but Chaval is an extraordinary Bobal, Valencia's perfect summer red. Initial fermentation is long and slow ...
Near the villages of Minerve and La Caunette in Languedoc, situated on a high plateau, lies Chateau Coupe-Roses, an organic estate passionately run by Francoise le Calvez and Pascal Frissant. Their vineyards are at the highest altitudes in Minervois, betw...