2017 Matassa Vin de France Rouge

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 93 points

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  1/2/2019 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 93 Points

  It's immediately apparent this wine was made from skill and experience rather than from a newcomer to the French Natural Wine arena.
  
  Matassa Rouge is 100% early picked Carignan from South African/New Zealand transplant to the Southern Rhone, Tom Lobbe. It's beautifully pure, perfectly concentrated, and elegantly fresh - front-loaded with ripe berries and minerals. You'll notice some sulfur stink which will subside after ten or fifteen minutes. Then blackberries, raspberries and mulberries. It's light bodied and with a picture perfect high acid to light tannin balance. Silky smooth.
  
  You won't remember the grape so much as the winemaking.

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