Domaine Les Païssels - Saint Chinian Les Païssels 2022
2*Étoiles
Hachette
90/100
Bettane & Desseauve
"A complex and profound Saint Chinian made from a blend of old vines—a pure delight!"
Les Païssels is a full-bodied, sunny wine, full of complexity with spicy notes, candied orange blossom, and chocolate. Remarkable on the palate for its elegance and length. A splendid success with great aging potential.
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Eye
Dark red dress
Nose
Seductive, with candied aromas of orange blossom and licorice
Mouth
Full-bodied, with spicy, chocolate, and fruity notes, and a long finish with silky tannins.
Serve
At 17°C
Drink before
2030
Food and wine pairings
Pairs perfectly with lamb, a nice rib of beef, small game, meat in sauce, and spicy dishes...
Bettane & Desseauve
Wine rating (2024 guide) 90/100 (2020 vintage)
Rated estate (2025 guide) 3 stars (High-quality production, serving as a benchmark in its sector)
About the estate:
This new venture is run by two agricultural engineers, including a former director of a Fitou winery who took over the family vineyards after they left the cooperative. After a generous 2016 and a highly successful 2017, we noticed the high quality of the 2018 vintage, a benchmark wine for schist terroirs. With the 2019 vintage continuing this impressive momentum, we are happy to award them a third star.
Guide Hachette des vins
Wine noted (guide 2024) 2* Stars (Vintage 2020) (Remarkable wine)
Rated estate (2025 guide) 2 stars (Outstanding wine)
About the estate:
Vivien Roussignol and Marie Toussaint settled here in 2011 with just one hectare of goblet-pruned vines grown on schist slopes. They gradually expanded the vineyard, favoring old vines and preserving a rich heritage of grape varieties (around twenty today). The 12 hectares have been in conversion to organic farming since 2019.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Rated estate Selected (Please note that this guide is a ranking and, as such, all the estates listed in it, even those without stars, represent, in our opinion, the excellence of French production.)
Customer rating
4/5
based on 1 review
Note and opinion by Mr. GILLES D. Published on 08/03/2024
Favorite this cuvée with its utterly seductive Southern authenticity, which lacks neither style nor substance. The warm, full-bodied, and generous palate offers a brilliant palette of jammy black fruit flavors, followed by notes of bitter cocoa and licorice root, joined by essences of maquis. Showing great chewiness and density, the ripe fruit is wrapped in velvety tannins accompanied by a lovely roundness and imbued with the sunny character of the vintage. Remarkable concentrated and fragrant length, underscored by a hint of freshness to prolong the pleasure. Excellent R.Q. /P. Hiding their strong character beneath a sober presentation, the Paissels wines enhanced a Berber couscous with ras el hanout and harissa, shared with the family. Rating = 4.3.
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