Mas de Gourgonnier Les Baux de Provence Rouge 2010
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Blend: 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Grenache, 22% Syrah, and 15% Carignan
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Light, bright orange. Expressive aromas of fresh red berries and citrus pith. Energetic and precise in the mouth, offering tangy redcurrant and strawberry flavors and a hint of white pepper. With its racy, dry finish, this is ridiculously easy to drink.
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Yet Mas de Gourgonnier’s organic roots go back even further. Since the eighteenth century, the Cartier family has worked these fields, providing the local abbey with freshly grown fruits, vegetables and grain. It was in the 1950s when the family planted its first vines.
The rest, as it is said, is history. Here in Mouries, you’ll find a direct, unadulterated connection between the land and each bottle. The earthy aromas of flowering rosemary, wild sage and juniper and the mountain freshness of the cooling "mistral" winds are all echoed in the estate's organically raised wines.
Mas de Gourgonnier has been a North Berkeley partner for more than 25 years. In this unassuming, rugged appellation, the integrity and consistency of the family's philosophy and products mirrored our own as an importer. This is a vine-growing family that doesn't have to "sell" a natural philosophy; it's simply who they are, and who they've always been.
This purity of focus and flavor is still true today. Mas de Gourgonnier is one of the bedrock estates in southern France and certainly one that has few peers.