Mas Coutelou "Quoi Qu'il En Goutte" NV

Mas Coutelou "Quoi Qu'il En Goutte" NVDirect Press Selection June 2022 [PRESS 4 MIX PRESS 4 RED] Jeff Coutelou was one of the first to be certified organic in France back in 1987! His neighbors were not accepting of his methods. When he planted hedges to help block their chemical sprays from coming into his vines, they burned them down. Twice. Today he continues to take on work that many others do not have the patience or commitment for, like restoring obscure, nearly forgotten varieties

with layers of fruit and tannin that are truly remarkable for this price

The wine is an equal parts blend of Grenache and Syrah (with a dash of Carignan) that comes in at 14

so some juice from 2020 was added to get the fermentation going again

This is what grape vines do without humans wrangling them into neat rows

Smoky umami

She seems able to cut through the layers of Burgundian BS and deliver some of the most transcendent

The Terrasses du Larzac “Nuit Grave” 2019 is 45% Syrah

is co-fermented with crushed Sauvignon Blanc grapes

The finished wine was then aged for 6 months and bottled unfiltered with a tiny dose of sulfur

De La Riva

What’s nice about these wines is an immediacy that the more pedigreed Burgundies don’t offer up as easily

One of the most northernly appellations in the Alto Piemonte