Marilyn Lasserre

Marilyn is a genuine pioneer. Since her return to France in 2008, she has significantly contributed to the renewed success of Languedoc’s wines. Bringing her feminine touch to traditionally strong, rustic and full-bodied wines, Marilyn succeeded in improving quality and taste with a rigorous selection in the vineyards and perfect control of the winemaking process. Marilyn studied Viticulture and Oenology in Bordeaux, and has spent time working in various regions throughout the world. Les Argelières is a tribute to the “Terroir” from which these wines are produced, a terroir mostly made of pebble and limestone perfectly exposed to the sun. It enhances the fruit aromas as well as the mineral style of the white wines, whilst giving the reds a vibrant fruit character. The Pays d’Oc has a history of over 2600 years of vine-growing and winemaking. Over the centuries, the wine trade became more and more structured and grew rapidly. The region greatly benefits from the Mediterranean climate, bringing warm mist, and the Black Mountain which offers limestone and clay “terroirs” with cool temperatures.

This rosé is a light and fresh wine, with fruit-forward aromas. It displays notes of wild raspberry and candied strawberry. The palate is lively and well-balanced, with mineral elements echoing on the finish.

Enjoy this lovely rosé with Chicken noodle salad, Pesto & Parmigiano pasta, baked Salmon with chorizo rice

This is a special rose, made using ripe Cinsault grapes sourced from around Beziers and Carcassonne. Often seen as a rather mongrel-like red grape, Cinsault makes wonderfully fresh, fragrant, summer-berry-infused pink wines if the picking and fermentation is controlled to reduce oxidation and preserve natural acidity. The grapes for this wine are machine picked at night when the cool temperatures reduce the grapes tendency to oxidise, and the grapes cooled before crushing