What is a Carignan wine?

What is a Carignan wine?

Carignan is a red grape that is commonly blended with other red varieties. Naturally high in acidity and tannins, it makes a good partner with fuller, fruitier wines such as Grenache and Syrah.

What grape is Carignan similar to?

Like Pinot noir and Grenache, Carignan has mutated to produce white-berried and pink-berried color mutations known as Carignan blanc and Carignan gris, respectively. Carignan blanc is a white mutation of the Carignan grape found primarily in the Roussillon region.

Is Carignan Mourvedre?

Mourvèdre-Carignan is a unique grape lambic in Cantillon’s portfolio. This resulted in a lower fruit concentration of 180 grams of fruit per liter instead of the standard 250-300 grams per liter for the grape lambics.

Is Carignan a Rhone varietal?

Rhône-style Red Blend. There are approximately fourteen red grape varieties used in Southern Rhône red blends, including Calitor, Carignan, Cinsault, Clairette Rose, Counoise, Grenache, Marselan, Mourvèdre, Muscardin, Muscat Noir, Piquepoul Noir, Syrah, Terret Noir and Vaccarèse.

Is Carignan a dry wine?

Dry
Carignan/Sweetness of resulting wine

What Carignan tastes like?

Carignan Wine Tasting Notes The most dominant flavors of Carignan wine include: Red fruit such as cherry, raspberry, and cranberry. Licorice, baking spices, and pepper. Cured meat (Yes, it’s true — it pairs well with charcuterie!)

Do you chill Carignan?

The nature of natural winemaking can create juicier, typically fuller-bodied varieties however. So if you feel you want to give a Grenache-Carignan-Mourvedre blend a slight chill, go with your instinct!

How long does it take for Carignan to age?

These full bodied wines have aromas of violets, wild herbs and red fruits, followed by flavors of cherry, raspberry and blackberry, along with spicy notes. The best can age for ten years or more.

Is Carignan wine sweet?

Carignan/Sweetness of resulting wine
For the most part, Carignan wine is produced as a blended wine rather than a single varietal wine. It’s made to be dry, meaning there’s little residual sugar after fermentation. While it has fruity notes, it’s not a sweet wine.

What do you eat with Carignan wine?

Food Pairing with Carignan With its bold red fruit and earthy-meaty notes, Carignan is ideal with richer poultry dishes (turkey, duck), roasted pork, or even a meaty beef brisket.

What is Carignan wine?

Carignane in the US, Carignano in Italy, and Cariñena in Spain. Carignan is a curious red wine grape that provokes strong reactions in those who know about it.

What kind of wine is Carinena?

Carignan (Carinena) Wine. Carignan (Cariñena in Spain) is a black-skinned wine grape variety, most likely native to Aragon.

Is this the most delicious Carignan ever?

But perhaps the most delicious Carignan is not Carignan at all but Carignano, as the variety is called when planted, as it is to a limited extent, in the hot, dry south-western corner of Sardinia.

Is Carignan dead in the Languedoc-Roussillon?

Although the proportion of the Languedoc-Roussillon devoted to Carignan has been declining steadily as the so-called cépages améliorateurs (improving grape varieties) Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Cinsault and to a certain extent Cabernet and Merlot have replaced the gnarled old bushes of Carignan, Carignan is still the most planted vine.