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DSC_0010Since 1870, in the wine business of the Languedoc, the Jeanjean family, today a large company in wine, exists in the South of France. It is almost a "dishwasher" story: the cooper who once bought a vineyard and makes it to the wholesaler who owns many vineyards and has long been a global company. You can't get past his wines - if you're talking about the Languedoc.

I admit, it's not the kind of winemaking I look for and appreciate. I tend to avoid the wines from the perfected wine business - omnipresent in the Languedoc. Purely the idea of how many different wines are made in the empire and how they are made - in technically perfect facilities - reminds me frighteningly of assembly line production.

Even if the matter is a bit more complicated, even more differentiated, this kind of winemaking and winemaking can hardly inspire me. Still, I do occasionally reach for a Jeanjean wine on the shelf - alongside the renowned Languedoc winemakers. It's a good thing, because I keep finding that they're not as bad as I want to make them out to be.jeanjean-carte-languedoc

"Mas de Lunès is the oldest winery in the Jeanjean family. It is rather located at the edge of the Languedoc, towards Montpellier, and is strongly influenced by Syrah, which is most widely grown along the Rhone. The type "southern Rhone" is therefore much closer to the wine than the "classic" assemblages of Faugère or even Corbière (Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Garignan, Cinsault). So the wine is "finer", more Rhonian, one can perhaps say, without denying the hot "cooking" in the southern sun.

The wine costs about 9 euros (which is already a lot for a wine in the discounter in the Languedoc). So it definitely belongs to the top wines in the small shops down by the sea, where rather mass than quality is in demand. If you get quality for the money - and this wine has quality - you quickly give up personality (which this wine doesn't have). I drank it appreciatively, with goodwill, but it didn't stick in my memory.

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