Grap-G Marsanne Viognier 2019

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I have to confess that whenever I open a bottle of wine I like to start searching something more it so that I can enrich the first research  I have done before buying it. Where does it come from, who has made it, why have they made it, is there something special or witty about the name, who has done it and the history behind it are some of the questions that I feed and expect to have answered.

One of my main expectations when I open a wine is that it can offer me the possibility to travel to different places by offering me a unique combination of tastes that can reflect not only the soil, but also the sun or the hands that have worked it. The expectations and goals of its producers and enologues. The conflicts and emotions behind it.

In other words, I am expecting a similar feeling as to the one books can offer. And that is the reason why I think that both match each other so well. Besides the gastronomic suggestion, I always try to add the wine that can reflect the feeling of what I am reading. 

This is also the reason why I get particularly irritated when it is hard to find information about the wine. Either there is no reference to who has produced it or to a website where you can check it. When you google it you are often offered a wide range of possibilities to buy it but no link to the site of the producer. 

This is exactly what happened with this Grap-G. I have to confess that it took me quite a while to find out that it was made by a cooperative of small and medium wine producers from the French region Pays d'Oc.

Even though they have a rather good design with interesting events and posts to promote the wines of their associates, I have still found it hard to know exactly which wines  they are promoting or supporting.

The Grap-G reveals intense spring fruity notes such as peach and green apple due to the combination of Viognier and Marsanne. It is also pretty fresh and appealing to our senses, being a perfect match to most Asian dishes and a clear invitation for Spring to come.

It is a perfectly easy wine to drink which ends up being versatile for different moments, either to accompany some food or to have it just by itself. 

To it I can only to recommend Han Kang´s fascinating The Vegeatarian which has gotten me absolutely absorbed in what has revealed to be one of the best things I have recently read. 

Enjoy them!

 

16/20
Country: France  
Region:Pays d'Oc

Grapes: Marsanne, Viognier

12,5%
Winemaker: Marilyn Lasserre
 Website: https://www.paysdoc-wines.com/

 

Location: Hamburg, Germany

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