A red winemaking style of white grapes, with a soak time on skins in tank. This wine is a beautiful orange golden colour. The nose reveals notes of candied orange zest, paprika and dry apricot. There's a beautiful tannic structure in the mouth, with a nice freshness due to moderate oxidation.

Fun fact, Diane’s Les Cimels Red was the inspiration for the founding of the Real Wine Company! Diane had taken over a failing estate which was over-producing huge quantities of dilute, boring wines which were helping to fill the EU Wine Lake. Diane set about restoring these beautiful old vineyards to restrict the quantities and improve the quality in direct inverse proportion. First of all, they got the quality right, then they got on with conversion to organic and bio-dynamic status which all their wines now are. The château name comes from the family crest which is Gold and Red.

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