Mas de Janiny 2024 Carignan "Le Temps des Gitans", Languedoc-Roussillon

With summer rolling in, this light, fresh-tasting red wine couldn’t come at a better time.  This red wine comes from 40-120 year old Carignan vines which lay in a special part of Languedoc near Montpelier.  Instead of a heavy sun-saturated red wine you expect to encounter from this region, you are surprised with a wonderful bistro wine at just 12.5% alcohol, a juicy quaff with just the right amount of acidity for balance, and a touch of minerality in the aroma.  Hamburger wine?  Sure.  Chillable?  Sure.  A wine we can drink a bit more of in the summer?  Hell, yes.  The caricature on the label was created by the slain cartoonist from the Paris satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.