Mas Amiel Millésime 69

Francia / Languedoc-Roussillon

Extraordinary red dessert wine made from organically grown grapes from the hills of Maury, about 30 km NW of Perpignan. Decomposed shale and brown mark soils, with southern exposure. Manual harvest and certified biodynamic cultivation.
16% vol.

BIODYNAMIC WINE

Appellation: Maury Vin Doux Naturel

Grape Variety: 90% Grenache, 5% Macabeo & 5% Carignan.

Winemaking: Fermented in stainless steel vats using natural yeasts from de-stemmed grapes. Fermentation stopped by the addition of alcohol ("mutage") followed by 30 days maceration before ageing in outdoors in glass demijohns for one year. Then aged for since 1969 in large French oak vats (35,000 liters).

Awards: Jancis Robinson: 19,5/20

Tasting Notes: Residual sugar 92 gr./l. Best enjoyed: 2023 to 2026.

Presentation: Cardboard boxes of 6 bottles of 75 cl. Each with an individual cardboard envelope
Available.

What do the experts say?

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Jancis Robinson: smells younger than the 99! Tea and figs and something incredible tangty. Cofee. But the astounding thing is the freshness. And the spice. And the complexity. And the texture. Oolong, dates, chocolate, salt and shimmer. I want to go to bed with this wine...
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Tamlyn Currin [J.R.]: If the '99 was a sculpture, the '69 is like a national museum, a massive colonnaded building broached by marble steps and filled with light and shadows, edifices and crannies, vaults and ringing corridors and dust and treasures. It is also a wine that deserves hours and hours of silent conversations, listening and contemplation.

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