Languedoc
Cacahuète - 2015 - Marc Castan
Domaine Mamaruta
A nose with notes of blueberry, blackberry, cocoa, and sweet spices... Powerful, full-bodied, with beautiful freshness on the finish. Cacahuète 2015 is now at its prime, it only needs a quick decanting.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Fitou
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2025
- rock’n’roll
A blend of 45% Carignan, 45% Mourvèdre and 10% Grenache, from old vines cultivated organically and planted on clay soils. Grapes are harvested by hand using small crates. Natural vinification: manual vatting, alternating between destemmed bunches and whole bunches, maceration for 20 days in conical wooden vats, very soft punch-down, light pump-over using a bucket. End of fermentation (long!) in barrels, aging for 10 months in casks. Unfined, unfiltered, zero added sulfites. Maturation in bottle at the estate before commercialisation.
Marc Castan
Marc Castan lives in Leucate in France’s Aude department. This future enfant terrible was born in Narbonne, where he grew up impassioned by both land and sea. After choosing to study viticulture and oenology, he inherited his grandfather’s vines. So began his adventure in wine, which initially was limited to selling his grapes to the local cooperative. But in time, Marc developed a desire to...
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