:: Our best selling white last summer
:: The 'original' Oyster wine
:: Fragrant, Vibrant and expressive
:: Perfect for the warmer months
"Picpoul, the variety, is a beaut little wine from Languedoc, close to where the region meers the Mediterranean. It's also an area famed for salt and oyster farming. No wonder this wine goes so well with the briny, fresh molluscs and also with fried oysters. Ormarine 2010 is simple and fresh with plenty of lively, crunchy acidity and citrus and a faint fennel-aniseed character with slight phenolic grip on the finish. Such an appealing wine." JANE FAULKNER, The Age This white is made from the white Picpoul grape and comes from the commune of Pinet, on the Mediterranean coast near Montpellier. The vines are planted on the small plateau (hence the appellation name Coteaux du Languedoc, or small hills of the Languedoc region) overlooking a 7000ha salt water lagoon where oysters are farmed in abundance.
This is a dry, crisp and flavoursome white made without oak and bottled early to retain freshness. It is without the fatness and high alcohol of chardonnay, or the overt fruitiness of sauvignon blanc or the high acidity of riesling. Searching desperately for a comparison, I would say it’s similar to Austria’s Gruner Veltliner or a slightly less aromatic riesling with more body.
Sometimes Picpoul de Pinet shows an iodine / sea breeze nuance but it always has a vibrant lemony tang, and it is usually a wine to drink young.The Randall's Team
The name sounds complicated, but it’s really very simple. This is made from the Picpoul grape (a dry white with citrus tang and a little more weight than riesling) from the village of Pinet, on the central French Mediterranean coast near Montpellier. This is really great with shellfish and molluscs! RANDALL POLLARD
For drinking as an aperitif or with seafood, this is an amazingly cheap and very interesting white! Randall Pollard.
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