Plaimont Cotes de Gascogne Manseng Noir 2022 Vintage:2022 granitic minerality

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Plaimont Cotes de Gascogne Manseng Noir 2022 Vintage:2022 granitic mineralityThe talented Manseng family of grapes has lately welcomed back a long lost cousin. Manseng Noir was once recognized as a bit player in red wines from the Southwest regions of Bearn, Tursan, and Saint Mont. Then it went extinct. No one particularly noticed because wines from this rural part of France were and largely remain strictly local. However, when growers from the towns of Plaisance, Aignan, and Saint Mont formed the Plaimont cooperative in the