Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres AOP - Château de Corneilla

In the glass, the Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres from Château de Corneilla displays a dense purple color. Ideally poured into a red wine glass, this Old World red wine offers wonderfully expressive aromas of black cherry, plum, prune and morello cherry, rounded off by black tea, gingerbread spice and oriental spices contributed by aging in wooden barrels.

This wine delights with its elegantly dry flavor. It was bottled with only 1.1 grams of residual sugar. As you would naturally expect from a wine, this Frenchman naturally enraptures with the finest balance despite all its dryness. Aroma does not necessarily require a lot of sugar. On the palate, the texture of this punchy red wine is wonderfully velvety. Due to its vital fruit acidity, the Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres presents itself impressively fresh and lively on the palate. In the finish, this red wine from the wine-growing region of Roussillon finally inspires with considerable length. There are again hints of plum and damson. In the aftertaste, mineral notes of the clay-dominated soils join in.

Vinification of the Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres from Château de Corneilla

The basis for the powerful Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres from Roussillon are grapes from the Garnacha, Monastrell and Syrah varieties. In Roussillon, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of clay. After the grape harvest, the grapes go immediately to the press house. Here they are selected and carefully crushed. This is followed by fermentation in small wood at controlled temperatures. After the end of fermentation, Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres is aged for another 12 months in French oak barrels.

Recommended food for the Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres from Château de Corneilla

Drink this red wine from France best tempered at 15 - 18°C as an accompanying wine to cod with cucumber-mustard vegetables, spaghetti with yogurt-mint pesto or fruity endive salad.

Awards for the Cavalcade Rouge Côtes de Roussillon Les Aspres from Château de Corneilla

In addition to an absolutely first-class price for the quality, this red wine from Château de Corneilla can also boast awards. In detail these are

• Wine Advocate - Robert M.Parker - 88-90 points

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