Roussillon
CR - 2022 - Raphael Baissas
Nada
A "tinted white" with real substance! With its puzzling yet exceedingly charming nose, this unique wine boasts notes of cranberry, redcurrant, lychee and yellow apple. Palate: fluid without simply being easy-drinking, this wine of great finesse can be enjoyed from aperitif into dinner.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
Not white or red, rosé or orange... a hybrid! A blend of 98% Macabeu and 2% Syrah, from old vines planted on calcareous soils. The grapes are harvested by hand, followed by direct pressing. The juice is poured into 5-hectolitre vats over the marc from Syrah grapes, sitting for maximum 24 hours (call it an "infusion"), then is matured 7 months in stainless steel vats. Bottled in Spring 2023 without fining or filtration, and just a micro-dose of sulphur.
Raphael Baissas
Raphael Baissas is the very definition of a free spirit. This thirty-something native of Perpignan, born to a wine merchant father and an artist mother, did a fair bit of wandering before he stumbled onto the vineyard path. As a lover of graffiti and techno, Raph was first drawn to the city life of concerts, cinema and computers, and even landed a job at Apple... But in 2014, the call of...
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