Maxime Magnon La Demarrante 2022

• 50% Carignan, 30% Grenache, 20% Syrah• 50-60 year old vines in sandy limestone and schist• Aged in both cuve and foudre “La Démarrante” is a blend of only Carignan, Grenache, and Syrah. It is terrific young and deliciously quaffable in youth as the suppleness of the texture here is irresistible. "La Démarrante is one of those wines that truly inspires thirst vintage after vintage." Anthony Lynch (Kermit's son) says that because "It is what happens when the Languedoc meets the Beaujolais".  Take old fruit and ferment it carbonically and you have a light, fresh, and delicious wine in the glass that is PERFECT slightly chilled! _____________ For people familiar with it, most of the Languedoc produces wines of little excitement, much of the terroir is flat, with fertile soils that make for easy farming and high volumes of cheap, basic fruit for, well, basic wines that are destined for supermarkets. But, like anything great, nothing comes easy and thankfully there are some, albeit very sm