Chateau Juvenal, Ventoux 2023 'Perseides' Rouge

This is a very powerful but intriguingly delicious Grenache. Pure Grenache or with the 1% Syrah required by appellation law? Who knows (apart from Sebastien, of course) but who really cares? It's fun and fantastic in equal measures. 2023 was clearly a great vintage for the team at Juvenal. Great potential but really rather lovely now.

Drinking Dates: 2026 to 2032+

Cépagement: 99% Grenache, 1% Syrah

Upbringing: Aged entirely in stainless steel.

ABV: 15.5%

"A real tour de force. There are under 300 cases made and it offers an incredible bouquet of jammy blackberries, spring flowers, liquorice and rose petals. Full-bodied, voluptuous, rounded and downright sexy, it should knock your socks on right out of the gate." 95/100 (Wine Advocate)