Love La Pèira – Love that Languedoc Episode 8
I got to visit the cult hit La Pèira in the Terrasses du Larzac and taste a lot of delicious wines. Unfortunately for you anglophones, the reds were tasted in La Pèira’s French tasting. Luckily though, I’m not the only one who talks about them. You can check out Gary Vaynerchuk’s take on these delicious red wines or read what the Wine Advocate says.
In the meantime, this English language episode is packed full of goodies including a blow-your-mind white wine (viognier roussane blend) and a tasting of the 2009 Syrah from La Pèira pure in the holding tank. NICE. This gives you a sneak peak of the Syrah that will make its way into their extremely limited run wines.
In retrospect, I really didn’t freak out enough about this white wine which we finished off at lunch. If you like big reds but never really got passionate about white wine (or you know somebody like that), Deuslys is a hardcore white that is explosive. We tasted it AFTER tasting three HUGE red wines and it still felt fresh, big and delicious. The only problem is that they make sooo little of it for now. It’s super rare…for now.
Terroir des Terrasses du Larzac
Lastly, one of the great things about this vineyard is that you can follow them online. It seems like Rob Dougan has signed up for every social media site I’ve ever heard of.
La Peira on Twitter
on Facebook
on Flickr
The wines:
La Pèira 2007, La Pèira, AOC Terrasses du Larzac
Las Flors 2007, La Pèira, AOC Terrasses du Larzac
Les Obriers, La Pèira, AOC Terrasses du Larzac
See also:
Malolactic Fermentation – A second fermentation (completely separate from alcoholic fermentation) in which malic acids are converted to lactic acids. Softens the tannins and decreases certain types of spoilage. The wine we taste in the tank is probably going through it’s malo as we are tasting it. It’s hard/impossible to tell by taste, but I suspect (and hope) that the malo is underway.
The varietals we mentioned
Carignan
Cinsault
Roussane
Viognier
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Tags: carignan, cinsault, English, gary vaynerchuk, languedoc, red wine, roussane, terrasses du larzac, vineyard, viognier, white wine, wine, wine video, winery
English | Ryan O'Connell December 7, 2009
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By Rob Dougan, December 10, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
Ryan,
Many thanks to all you for paying a visit to our domaine. I hope you all enjoyed the trip to the Herault. It’s great to see such passion commitment, and enthusiasm for the region of the Languedoc. Something we share.
Loved seeing Juliet Bruce Jones sharing her thoughts & looking forward to learning about interesting domaines such as Plo Roucarels in the future!
Jeremie mentioned the O’Vineyards wines which he found really excellent.
All the best!
By Ryan O'Connell, December 11, 2009 @ 2:07 am
That trip was fantastic! Thanks for having us. And thanks for your kind words. Wish I could talk more but I am frantically editing the three videos that have piled up in queue! Rest assured, I appreciate your feedback and you are totally awesome!
By Shea, January 2, 2010 @ 2:17 pm
Outstanding video and lots of very interesting information here. My only qualm is the echo, which makes it hard to hear everything. Not sure if sound editing could fix that or mics.
Luckily we get the La Peira wines in Vancouver, BC and I have a bottle of each of the 05 vintage waiting for the right tasting moment. These are stunning wines and I can’t wait to taste the next vintage that makes it into the province.
By Ryan O'Connell, January 4, 2010 @ 12:36 am
Thanks, Shea.
These are great value wines and everybody is going to want to be your drinking buddy if you hold onto those 05′s!
We’re working on the audio issue in our more reverby settings. I’m very close to bringing my more fancy audio equipment around everywhere but that is going to be such a pain in the butt. I promise the audio on my next Peira visit will be better.