"Variraptor" Malbec 2024 - Pays d'Oc

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This “Dino Malbec” comes from plots located in the Upper Aude Valley, between 200 and 350 meters above sea level. It is aged partly in stainless steel vats and partly in wooden vats. 

It offers a nose of blackberries and violets; on the palate, these notes evolve into aromas of black fruits with concentrated, silky tannins.

Renowned for its wines from high-altitude vineyards, the Upper Aude Valley is also Europe's main source of fossils from the last dinosaurs. The Variraptor had large claws, a major asset for this carnivorous dinosaur. It measured 1.30 meters high and 3 meters long. Bones of this dromaeosaurid (-70 million years old) have been found in the red Cretaceous soils of the Upper Aude Valley.