MATABURRO - MELISSA INGRAND & LAURENT ROGER
FRANCE, PERPIGNAN, RIVESALTES
After a little rest over summer, we’re thrilled to release the 2022 vintage from Laurent & Melissa at Mataburro.
Despite a difficult, dry vintage in Rivesaltes in 2022 - less than 350ml of rainfall in total - good rains at the crucial point before harvest has lent the wines a real lift, and are as fresh as Laurent & Melissa would like!
As always, work in the vines is minimal, with no ploughing and an increase in cover crops and green manure to help the soil temperature in recent years as the climate continues to warm. In addition to the three hectares of Laurent’s family vines - plantings of Grenache and Merlot mostly clay on limestone - they now farm a small 70-year-old parcel of Macabeu by the river on alluvial soils, and another of 70-year old Mourvedre on a small hill, over black schist.
In the cellar, the processes have remained the same: short, whole bunch macerations are pressed very gently and raised mainly in steel and fibreglass, with an amphora and barrels reserved for TOTEM.
We have the following wines available now in very small quantities:
AVAILABLE NOW
WHITE
NEW 2022 - Memo - Macabeu
70-year old vines by the river, 5-day maceration
ROSE
NEW 2022 - Mura-Mura - Merlot, Grenache, Muscat
One night of maceration, vines 30-70 years old
RED
NEW 2022 - Otium - Grenache
80-year old vines, 3-day maceration
NEW 2022 - Idoine - Merlot
30-40 year old vines, 4-day maceration
NEW 2022 - Quartet - Mourvèdre, Grenache
70-year old vines, 5 days maceration
NEW 2022 - Totem - Mourvèdre, Grenache (Very Limited)
70-year old vines, aged in barrel and amphora for 6 months.
