Roc des Anges | Roussillon | Imalaya, Côtes Catalanes blanc IGP | 2022 | 750ml | bio

Description

Product description for Roc des Anges Imalaya, Côtes Catalanes blanc IGP 2022 (bio)

Information

Carignan Gris from the Piedmont Pyrénéen region. The vines are planted partly on pure slate soil, partly on granite at an altitude of 500 meters – about half an hour from the winery. The majority of the vines were planted in 1961. The grapes were fermented spontaneously and aged in used oak.

Colour

Intense straw yellow

Nose

Imalaya is a Carignan Gris that offers a delicacy rarely seen in this grape variety. It smells of white blossoms, candied lemon peel, some lightly roasted pistachio, ginger, and rock, but also of ripe white-fleshed stone fruit. The accent is provided by the very subtle use of wood.

Palate

On the palate, the Imalaya possesses the typical elegance inherent in all of Marjorie Gallet’s wines. Initially, the Carignan gris offers a wonderful abundance of white stone fruit. Then, within this abundance, the citrus and zesty notes, along with the accompanying acidity and tartness, become increasingly prominent, until at some point they take over, and the Imalaya becomes ever more straightforward, ever fresher, and downright powerful. This is a wine that presents itself as sharp as a blade, with a mouthwatering saltiness, yet also delicate in its composition of the aforementioned fruit, a hint of wood and caramel, and an electrifying minerality. It’s worth traveling so far into the hinterland for this parcel of old vines.

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