Roussillon
Fille Sauvage - 2022 - Raphael Baissas
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A nose of orange peel, roasted apricot, beeswax, and subtle vegetal notes... The palate is fleshy, with pep and structure. Raphael suggests pairing Fille Sauvage with a cheese plate – and we heartily concur!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
A cuvée that changes every vintage, 2022 is a 100% Muscat d'Alexandrie cuvée, made from vines grown in conversion to biodynamics, planted in Calce on clay-limestone soils. The grapes were harvested by hand, with low yields : 15 hl/ha. This is an orange wine, so the whole clusters macerated before a soft pressing and an aging in demi-muids barrels that have seen several wines. 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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