Matassa | Roussillon | El Carner Rouge VdF | 2023 | 1500ml

Description

Tasting Tom Lubbe’s wines is a special experience. Wines full of life and energy, wild, untamed, true, and demanding. Already with The Observatory in Swartland, Tom – born in New Zealand, raised in the Cape – attracted attention. After an internship with Gérard Gauby, Tom stayed with him for three years and married Gérard’s sister Nathalie. In 2001, they started their own vineyard with the purchase of Clos Matassa, an ancient Carignan parcel in the high hinterland of Roussillon. In 2003, Nathalie and Tom founded Domaine Matassa with old vineyards in Calce and Fénouillèdes. Two things make Tom’s wines so unique. In the vineyards, he uses green manuring and permanent planting to vitalise the soil and vines, lowering potential alcohol and pH levels. In the cellar, where he has banned sulphur and destemmers, this leads to healthy fermentation processes. In this way, his wines are created in the most natural way and develop their very own expression. Revolutionary.

Producer website: https://www.larvf.com/.domaine-matassa.10709.409296.asp