Jane Anson, Bordeaux correspondent of the DECANTER Magazine, visits Cabidos

The next cult wine? Petit Manseng, the ‘great seducer’

This centuries-old grape from Jurançon could be on the verge of a ‘Viognier moment’, says Jane Anson.

She meets a Thai winemaker in the shadow of the Pyrenees who is helping to tame Petit Manseng; immortalised by French poet Colette as one of the wine world’s great seducers – partly because of its fabled status as a source of strength to philandering King Henry IV of France.
Read more at http://www.decanter.com/wine-news/opinion/news-blogs-anson/anson-petit-manseng-cult-wine-333086/#KX3CihehktHdiLDY.99

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