Domaine Matassa El Carner 2024

Description

Named after the Catalan word for “ram,” Matassa El Carner blends 60% Grenache Gris and 40% Macabeu from a half-hectare parcel of century-old vines in Calce, Roussillon. Tom Lubbe, the South African-born winemaker behind Domaine Matassa, farms biodynamically on soils of limestone, clay, and slate surrounded by garrigue herbs. The grapes undergo three to four weeks of co-maceration and fermentation in 1000-liter Italian amphorae with indigenous yeasts, followed by eight months aging in the same vessels. Matassa El Carner is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without sulfur—a wine that defies easy categorization.