The Radiant Rose Ludovic Engelvin 2020

The Radiant Rose Ludovic Engelvin, natural wine, 70% Mourvedre, 30% Grenache Noir.  A deep yet fresh Rose, notes of Garrigues and red fruits, lovely hint of funky, superb stuff.  Ludovic Engelvin doesn’t make The Radiant Rose in every vintage.  They make it with natural fermentation in concrete tanks.  Ludovic only uses natural yeast and no sulphur.  He adds a tiny smidge at bottling.  This wine has always loads of personality, rough red fruits, Garrigues, yeasty notes, it has it all.  In the summer months with grills of meat and fish and vegetables, this is such an enjoyable bottle of serious Rose.

Ludovic Engelvin started his wine career as a somellier, running a wine shop.

After studying under Didier Daganeau in the Loire Valley he decided to return to his native Languedoc, and bought a single hectare of Grenache vines, growing on sandstone and clay limestone, which he began to vinify. He quickly established himself as one of the brightest young wine making talents in France and soon sold his shop to make wine full time. He uses no mechanical intervention, just a herd of sheep to maintain the land, and only herbal remedies being used on the vineyard - no chemicals here! Bottling takes place without fining or filtration. Ludovic is a serious and sensitive soul and this is transmitted in his superb expressions of the Grenache grape variety, of which he now produces several.