Prospérité de l'Entrepriae, 2021

A natural red from one of France's most chased small makers - juicy and easy to drink, with a bit more weight than his usual pale style.

Daniel Sage makes wine on the edge of the Ardeche from his own steep, horse-worked slopes and from fruit bought off neighbouring growers. This one blends Merlot and Carignan from the southern Ardeche. Some of the grapes were pressed straight away and some soaked on their skins for three weeks, which gives it more body than his paler reds. Blue fruit and bramble, cranberry, a root-beer hint and a little earth, all supple and juicy, with nothing added.