▸ Silky tannins, north-slope coolness

▸ Garrigue vs Limestone

▸ 40-year vines. No oak.

After the office, pour this chill-able Cinsault from the cool 180 m north slopes of Aumelas. Native yeast, eight months in stainless and zero oak leave only bright red fruit and fine, silk-thread tannin—a soothing glass at city-evening temperature.

Cinsault rarely appears solo in the Languedoc; here it thrives on the cooler, north-facing slopes of Aumelas at 180 m. Philippe and Stéphanie Peytavy ferment the 40-year vines with native yeasts and bottle unfiltered. The result is ruby-bright, red-berry spice with tannins as light as linen.