Gros Manseng

Oh, yeah.

The regular cuvées would have been like Unie Blanc, Colombard, maybe a little bit of Gros Manseng.

Gros

Manseng, that's right.

What's going on?

Yeah, so the two main grapes we sort of talk about here are the Mensengs, which is Gros Menseng and Petit Menseng.

And the two main wines we see, if you...

So this is just a little... trick um if you just see a wine label durinson it's typically going to be a sweet wine um but if you see a wine label durinson sec or you'll just sometimes see it just called sec they are these they're the drier wines from the region and they're probably the ones that i'm personally more interested in and i feel like are kind of the ones making waves at the moment um Gros menzang, gros meaning larger, the bigger, juicier berries.

Petit menzangs are smaller and thick-skinned.

And you know, in the traditional winemaking here, these grapes were left on the vine to sort of raisinate out, similar to the sweet wines we're talking about in Mont Balasac, By concentrating those sugars, you can make a wine that is much richer and much sweeter.

Uh, this wine is just labeled sec.

It's from the Durinson.