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Chateau Simone Palette Rouge

Palette, France
The benchmark red of Palette AOC; complex, age-worthy blend of Mourvedre, Grenache, and Cinsault with garrigue, dark cherry, leather, and a long limestone-mineral finish — one of Provence's most profound reds
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The wine's garrigue and dark fruit are inseparable from slow-roasted Provencal lamb with wild herbs
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Structured, herbal Palette red is perfectly suited to the olive-enriched Provencal beef stew
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Leather and garrigue notes in the wine echo the gamey richness of wild boar with aromatic herbs
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The wine's herbal complexity and earth resonate with the distinctive wrapped goat's cheese of Provence
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