Gris, Pays d’Oc 2024. Les Pluviers.
Gris is a variation of French Rosé wine that’s popular in the South: it’s much lighter and usually fresher, not sweet and needs to be drunk young. It’s not a sin to add an ice cube to chill your glass of gris. The principal varietal grown in the Languedoc is Grenache Gris but there are also Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Gris etc.
This bottle, labelled Pays d’Oc 2024, that I brought back from a supplier in Marseille, has the typical pale colour, a fresh nose of the smaller red fruits with a slightly acid after-taste that’s refreshing on a hot summer day. We enjoyed my personal import with Terry’s copious Salade de Chèvre chaude in his garden in Preston Park, Brighton, now luxuriant with growth and flowers that are reminders of the Mediterranean and the sub-tropics.