Red wines to enjoy this summer
As the season’s change, here are three lighter and more fragrant wines from makers of powerful reds to enjoy this summer
‘A change in the season means a change in red wine style’: choose lighter wines to match the sunnier weather. Photograph: Getty Images
‘A change in the season means a change in red wine style’: choose lighter wines to match the sunnier weather. Photograph: Getty Images
Sun 9 May 2021 01.00 EDT
Domaine du Vieux Pressoir Saumur Puy Notre Dame, Loire, France 2015 (£23, redsquirrelwine.com) A change in the season means a change in red wine style: away with the chunky, the rich, the powerful; in with the elegant, the fragrant, the refreshing. No wine style fits the latter brief better than the red wines of the Loire, especially those made from the increasingly fashionable (all over the world) cabernet franc grape variety. In a clutch of appellations such as Chinon, Bourgueil, and Saumur-Champigny, cabernet franc produces wi