WINE CLUB SELECTION JAN 2024
for fans of Tavel rose. (note: this rose is labelled as a red wine)
Les Salines ("the salt flats") is a cuvée produced as a collaboration between Mas Mellet & Eric Pfifferling.
from three different sites planted in 1966, 1963 and 1948. One hundred crates from each site are collected manually. work is done according to lunar calendar.
sandstone and red clay soil. microclimate influenced by Mediterranean.
Mas Mellet is Emilie and Brice Bolognini
16 hectare estate, sheep on site
region: Costiere de Nimes, France
varietal: Carignan
style: light chillable red / rose
farming/cellar: certified organic, practicing biodynamic, hand harvested, grapes are refrigerated overnight after harvest, one night of maceration, devatting by gravity, pressed into old barrels more than 10 years old, tiny addition of so2
pairing: best as a daytime aperitif
