'Joséphine' Crémant de Limoux NV Grape|Falanghina

'Joséphine' Crémant de Limoux NV Grape|FalanghinaThis natural wine is a 'brut nature', the driest category for sparkling wine meaning no sugar remains. The wine is blended with other vintages aged for 9 months in barrels before going into the bottle, which gives the wine its characteristic, rich and faintly oxidative character. The fruit is still fresh pear and apple, with some deeper notes of dried stone fruit too. The wine is left on its lees in the bottle for 2 years before being disgorged,

with natural fermentations

after which the wine is bottled with no additions

It's in this context that sparkling red wine truly makes sense

Early picking this vintage brings greener and herbaceous notes to this otherwise perfumed wine

crunchy fruit is tied up with a thirst-quenching minerality – this is one that will transport you straight to the sea

it has a pleasingly rounded front end that goes through orchard fruits

with a nice creamy feel from the bottle fermentation and highly drinkable low finished alcohol

frothy bubbles

the texture of the wine is supple and elegant

Tot Blanc is is fresh

The wine sees two full years' ageing in old oak barrels

developed notes from the older wine as well as a lively