Matassa, VdF Rouge, 2024 Field_Blend_DI_2023 This is from the excellent

This is from the excellent 2018 vintage

and it shows beautifully now with patient air

The Cab Franc gives it a savory

Named as a playful nod to Ken Starr and the “Wine Spectator” era of over-the-top Zinfandels

Matassa, VdF Rouge, 2024 Field_Blend_DI_2023 This is from the excellentTom 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,