
Here's one of the great Roussillon reds, a tangle of Grenache and Carignan that hails from the black schists of the Pyrenees foothills in the seaside village of Collioure, a scant six miles from the Spanish border. The black schist imparts a signature minerality and cut that's almost saline in character, while aromas and flavors of dark berry and bramble with admirable concentration.