Matassa, VdF Rouge, 2024 Field_Blend_DI_2023 with flavors of black cherry

with flavors of black cherry and fennel

leaving it on the lees until late-summer bottling for texture without any oaky flavor

This is from the excellent 2018 vintage

and it shows beautifully now with patient air

Matassa, VdF Rouge, 2024 Field_Blend_DI_2023 with flavors of black cherryTom Lubbe arrived in Roussillon for a Domaine Gauby internship and never left, founding Matassa in 2003 and helping turn this old land of heavy, extracted reds into one of Europe's most quietly radical zones for terroir driven, low intervention wine. This is the estate's entry level Rouge, drawing on traditional Catalan varieties from mountain vineyards above the Mediterranean, farmed organically and biodynamically. Short maceration, neutral barrels,