This wine has great appeal, attractive berry notes, fresh herbs/earth, pepper, and concentrated berries. The palate has some bramble and forest floor with cedar and red cherry. Rounded tannins provide structure to the medium-bodied, food friendly quaff.

 

The grapes are destemmed, fermented and aged in concrete on the fine lees, unoaked. 

 

Jeff Carrel was born in 1969 in a suburb of Paris, where Les Darons was an affectionate nickname for “the parents;” it’s also his homage to the “ancestor” grapes of the Languedoc, Grenache and Carignan. Jeff enrolled in college to pursue a career in chemistry, but left to study enology at Montpelier, France’s premier wine university.  He works both as a winemaker and a consultant of some renown, providing assistance in Priorat, Languedoc, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, and Burgundy.  He also makes a portfolio of his own wines.