Well balanced this wine can be aged under appropriate conditions up to 3 to 4 years.
Serve at between 6-8°C.
Gilles Canton’s vines are about 5kms from the Med., where the light, sand of the coast give way to argilo-calcaire soils, which bring a bit more weight to the wine. Fresh and limey, with the merest saline note on the long finish.
Food Match: this wine goes very well with fish and shellfish, also wonderful as an aperitif.
100% Picquepoul from this now-fashionable appellation.
It has the originality of being made from a single grape variety, Piquepoul. Refugee on the shores of the Thau lagoon, this indigenous grape variety is perfectly adapted to the territory from which it comes. Long forgotten, today, it intrigues and seduces! This local grape has the advantage of being slow-ripening: picked after the heat of summer has passed it retains freshness and flavour.
In the old Occitan tongue Picpoul means “lip-stinger”, due to the grape’s natural acidity, but this wine is a lot friendlier than that: look on it as the Muscadet of the Mediterranean, albeit with more heft and flavour. There (and in Parisian bistros) it’s drunk with the local oysters and other shellfish from the Bassin de Thau, the large, shallow lagoon within sight of the vineyards.
