Camargue - "vin de sable" or sand wine

Anyone who loves wine and good food is, right here anyway. Numerous châteaux offer "Costieres de Nimes" or "Listel" - wines. A particular speciality is the so-called "sand"wine. The vines on the sandy bottom of the Camargue are constantly inundated by salt water. But this has not hurt them, on the contrary, because this only protected the vines of the Camargue from the great plagues of phylloxera and other parasites.

While in Europe the winemakers lamentos never stopped, the farmers in the Camargue with their earth full of reminiscent of sea and salt products, these guys have the business of their lives. Mainly "Gris" is grown, a light and bright rose. Lovers of wine will wish to try the unique vins de sable or sand wines, which are produced on the saline soils near Aigues-Mortes, in the bottom left-hand corner of the delta.This pale salmon pink wine really is the perfect accompaniment to shellfish.

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