Babo Nero d'Avola 2020 bical The cool High Eden site

The cool High Eden site brings lovely expression to Shiraz with mulberry fruits and fine minerality cutting a beautiful svelte figure

Les Granges is the Baudry family’s vin de bistro—a delicious

Even at this humble level the Oratoire vines yield just 30 hectolitres per hectare

red currant and wild strawberry fruit

but still some generosity through the middle

Babo Nero d'Avola 2020 bical The cool High Eden siteThe wine has a lot of Mediterranean about it, though its agile mouthfeel and supple, almost Beaujolais like fleshy feel make this quite a unique example to the variety. Perhaps this shouldn't be a surprise; the wine has plenty of semi carbonic influence (including 10% whole bunches) and is aged in massive French oak casks for 10 months before bottling.