Aromatic; there is peach, fresh flowers, honey, lime and citrus on the nose; this meets up with notes of nectarine and orange on the palate. Very good length, off-dry and 11.5% alcohol.
Fresh with notes of peach and a juicy salinity. A nice aperitif wine. Also tasted the 1999, which has held up remarkably well with no sign of oxidation and still showing freshness, savoury notes, and good length. The winemaker believes that 2018 will age as well as the 1999 has.
This 2010 Chardonnay is straw coloured with a nose of sweet butter and pineapple. The touch of oak adds a spicy note on the palate. The wine has a good mouthfeel and finishes dry. Very stylish for the price.
Opens with good varietal Cabernet character, showing blackcurrant and dark berry scents together with background smoky tobacco notes. On the palate, generous dark fruit and spice shows some complexity, staying just the right side of jammy ripeness. Finish is harmoniously balanced with a deft touch of oak.
A lovely wine with aromas and flavours of pear, citrus and nectarine. It fills out the mouth with a fleshy texture with maintaining firm acidity and minerality on the juicy finish. A great wine with shellfish.
Domaine Matassa blends and borders France and Spain in the Pyrénée-Orientales, in a region and a style that is distinctly Catalan. Schist and slate slopes surrounded by garrigue yield this biodynamic Grenache Gris (70%) & Macabeu (30%), whole-bunch pressed in wooden basket press and wild-yeast fermented in barrel before aging on lees for 18 months before bottling (lightly filtered but not fined). This richer white is best enjoyed at cellar temperature, with nutty, wild herbs, hay, hints of pear skin texturing and ample flake sea salts on this elastic, medium-plus palate. Acidity is humming and vibrating, streaming to the lingering finish. Electric, alive wine, this is age-worthy, drinking beautifully now, and will do with more cellaring.
Fewer than 25 cases were made of this aromatic white. It is very pale in the glass revealing scents of green fruit with floral and subtle herbal overtones. Attractively soft, honeyed tree fruit flavours suggest ripe pear and apricot. Residual sweetness is throttled back by crisp acidity and gritty mineral. Fresh light character and low alcohol make it a fine aperitif.