24 Days of French Wine: Languedoc-Corbières

Day 3 we have a wine from the Languedoc region. The climate here is Mediterranean with lots of sun and really ripe grapes, so you get a nice round grape, fruity when young, with a high alcohol content.

~The details~ 

Name: Les Pluviers
Year: 2014
Region/Appellation: Corbières AOC
Grape/Cépage:  unlisted (most likely grenache and syrah. Maybe some carignan.)
Alcohol: 12.5% vol.
Serving Temp: 16-18C
Serving ideas: grilled foods, meat in sauce, strong cheeses, aged cheeses

What we did: Steak dinner! We started with some leftover tapenade on baguette slices and then had steak with a super simple sauce of pan drippings deglazed with wine and served with a nice crusty baguette and bacon-fried Brussels sprouts.

For starters, I preferred the tapenade with yesterday's vin primeur, personally. There was nothing really wrong with this wine - it was fruity, a bit mineral, with some mild tannins. Hubby preferred this wine to yesterday's. I preferred yesterday's wine. There was something about this Corbières that just fell flat to me. Maybe it was the meal choice. Maybe we should have let it breathe more. Maybe the temperature wasn't quite right. Maybe I was distracted by my twisted ankle. Who knows? Not bad. Not magical. I'd give it another shot, though.