Touraine Cabernet Franc, Le Rocher des Violettes 2017

Cabernet Franc is slightly funky and chalky-textured. It provides a soft embrace, filling the mouth with a pillow of soft Cabernet fruit, Chinese five-spice, fennel and graphite. Attractive, characterful and unmessed-with. Excellent value for money.

This light to medium-bodied red is mouthwatering, with notes of cherry and cranberry, underscored by light loamy earth and tobacco hints.