About two-thirds Syrah and one-third Carignan

Soft fruit balanced with minerality

selections are modestly priced wine for "everyday" enjoyment

The vineyard’s vines are more than 50 years old and predominantly limestone soil with an abundant scattering of fossilized oysters from the Neogene period

Château Ollieux-Romanis "Lo Petit Fantet d'Hippolyte" Spain About two-thirds Syrah and one-thirdLocated in Boutenac, just south of the village of Corbires in the Languedoc region. First planted to vine in the 11th century AD, Ollieux Romanis actually came into existence as a farm producing grains, olives, and mutton in Roman times, some eight centuries earlier. The Domaine flourished while tend to under the care of the monks, with their daily religious ritual of producing sacramental wine. The label for this wine is drawn by the winemakers son,