Cinchona,
or “Quinine Bark” is one of the rainforest's most famous plants.
Legends say that the name cinchona comes from the Countess of Chinchon, the
wife of a viceroy of Peru, who was cured in 1638 of a malarial type of fever
by using the bark of the Cinchona tree. The Countess supposedly introduced it
to European medicine in 1640, but botanists did not know the identity of the
plant that is its source until 1737. Despite the fact that quinine and quinidine
drugs were patented, Peru and Bolivia, where the discovery was made and from
where the resources where extracted, did not share in the patents or resulting
profits.
A Classic modern Languedoc, 60% Carignan made via carbonic maceration &
40% Syrah made traditionally. Full of fresh fruit, smooth & lingering.
