This is what good wine from the Alicante Bouschet grape tastes like

The Alicante Bouschet produces very deep red wines. Not so much intended to drink neat, but very suitable as a 'drop of ink' for lighter colored wine from better blue grapes.

Check out our wines made from Alicante Bouschet grapes

The Alicante Bouschet is a nineteenth-century cross between the Petit Bouschet and Grenache. It is one of the few grape varieties in the world with red flesh. This type of grape is called Teinturier. The Saperavi from Georgia, for example, is also such a teinturier.

You very rarely come across a wine made from only Alicante Bouschet. A few Portuguese from the Alentejo region come up with this idea, but rarely with an exciting result. Precisely because of its deep red colour, it is often mixed with other grapes to – indeed! – give the wine a bit more colour. You can now find it in California and South America. But the Alicante Bouchet is mainly planted in France, in the southern French Languedoc and in Provence.

We currently have four wines made from the Alicante Bouschet grape in our range. You can view our Alicante Bouschet wines here.