2022 Famille De Boel ‘Le gras c’est la vie’ Méditerranénne Rouge

Region: Rhône Valley < France

Grapes: Carignan, Grenache, Caladoc (cross between Malbec and Grenache)

Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic/biodynamic farming; 30-year old vines on granite & gneiss soils; co-fermentations in stainless steel, where the fermented wine also rested for 5 months before bottling, unfined, with minimal SO2; 13.4% ABV

• Woman co-winemaker & co-owner: Nelly France!
• The name is a tribute to the pork butchers that make the piggy products of the region to celebrate warmth and joy with family during the winter - because ‘Fat is Life!’
• Play well with food, especially said piggy products
• Brambly red and black fruits, manly spicy texture, and a slightly meaty grip 
• Feels like a warm Autumnal hug

More about Famille De Boel
Famille De Boel is a small family estate owned and run by an enthusiastic and inspired husband/wife team in the high elevations of Saint Joseph. This is a project born from passion, not born from inheriting vineyards or a cellar. Nelly France is from Brittany (France), Arnaud De Boel is from Belgium, and they met in 2009 in New Zealand where their love for food and wine brought them together and quickly found a love for one another. With their two young children Augustin and Margot, the family chooses biodynamic farming and winemaking, and owns vineyards in the Northern Rhone where they live (in Saint Joseph and Cornas), and some land in the Southern Rhone close to the villages of Suze-la-Rousse and Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes. They are completely dedicated to the celebration of how food and wine come together