Mas Amiel : Altaïr 2022

Very clean, bright, fresh and floral on the nose, with notes of pear and a slight hint of natural gas. Full-bodied and fuller than expected, it’s rounded and generous. Really quite structured, this has fine-boned corsetry, lovely acidity and a straightness to it, it feels very upright. It’s not aromatically complex, but has an amazing mineral tension on the palate. Fermented with natural yeasts, and no sulphites added before bottling. From a single vineyard of co-planted 72-year-old vines on limestone, schist and some clay, 70% Grenache Gris, then Grenache Blanc and Macabeu. Elevage in concrete eggs and foudres.

Conference pear and white flowers once again dominate the fresh aromatics of Altaïr 2022, a very fine, sapid and elongated white. This plot of mixed varieties, predominantly Grenache Gris, delivers each year a streamlined wine with flesh and plenty of complexity.