2021 Château de Ségure Fitou Rouge

34% Carignan, 33% Grenache, 33% Syrah, all farmed sustainably on 20 year old vines on schist, limestone and clay soils.  Fermented in tank and aged for nine months in barrel. 5,000 cases were made. 

Medium to full bodied, this is a dry, fruity and spicy red with intense blackberry, spiced plum, dark chocolate, dried herbs, anise, cinnamon and nutmeg aromas and flavors. Textured on the palate, with plenty of grippy tannin and juicy acidity. 

Built on a rocky escarpment above the village of Tuchan, the 11th Century Château de Segure was once controlled by the Cistercian Abbey de Fontefroide in Corbières, for which it supplied its highly-regarded wines. Now, this is one of the brands created by the Mont Tauch cooperative, founded in 1913, which controls almost 3,000 acres of vines in the Fitou region. Fitou is one of the oldest vineyards in France. Wine was first made here by colonists from ancient Greece and later by Romans. As it was then and still is today, the business of Fitou is wine. Now, tractors and truckloads of wine traverse this rugged section of Languedoc-Roussillon, where once Roman chariots rumbled past this tiny village on the ancient Via Domitia that connected Spain and Rome.