Le Lesc Rouge Plaimont 2023

Le Lesc Rouge Plaimont, fruity, easy drinking, great value red. It is no surprise that it appears at many a fine restaurant as the house bottle, both red and white perform extremely well under a tenner. Or for a party, if you want your wine to taste like wine then Lesc is the bottle for you. Le Lesc rouge, a blend of Tannat, Cabernet and Merlot, is an honest, fruit-driven style red with cherry-skin crunch and some white pepper. Great with a plate of pimentos de padrones, a basque classic but will equally do some Yorkshire black pudding sausage and a good mash!

As much as we would like our website to be filled exclusively with exciting natural wines, we do recognise the need for good quality wines that don't break the bank, and this occasionally means a bit of compromise.

The Caves Cooperatives de Plaimont have been making wine since the 70s, and now encompass over 800 small family winemakers in the Cotes de Gascogne region of France, which is between Bordeaux and Madiran. Despite being a large operation, they seek to promote local grapes, capture the character of the region, and work in a way that is fair to the growers and respects the land. Many of their growers are organic or in conversion. By working in this way, they are able to produce wines of exceptional value, that are easy to drink but far from being run of the mill. We think that Lesc Blanc and Rouge punch far above their weight.