Our dear friend Jeff Carrel makes an elaborate range of wines, we're perhaps most fond of some of his more unusual bottlings. One of his goals is to revive grape-growing culture in some of the more remote areas of the south of France. He's planting unique varieties of grapes and encouraging young people to return to the area to farm the vines.

Cotes Catalan meaning Catalan slopes is a small region in the greater Languedoc. In the foothills of the Pyranees mountains, most of the vineyards lie on east facing slopes. Sea breezes cool the grapes in the day and wind from the snow capped Pyranees cool the grapes at night.