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Guy is everything, everything is Guy Rosé 2018,

La Sorga

Antony Tortul loves old vineyards: he devotes his life to finding and vinifying them. Just as there are shepherds without land, he can be defined as a landless winemaker, in other words, a wine merchant whose scope extends throughout Languedoc and, eastward, as far as Châteauneuf-du-Pape, in search of the best terroirs. Born in Foix, with six years of experience as a viticultural technician and oenologist in various vineyards in the south of France, he founded La Sorga in 2008. His enthusiasm leads him on a path filled with love at first sight, and each of these loves is a vineyard. The result is a stunning mosaic of natural, lively, and spirited wines, reinvented each year with around thirty cuvées per vintage. Few winemakers can include such a variety of grape varieties on their menu: the whole of southern France is there with muscats, grenaches, picpoul, mauzac, carignan, cinsault, marsanne, alicante, braucol, duras, viognier, len-de-l’el, and tutti quanti.
A tribute to all the Guys in the world, this is a rosé harvested in the Gaillac appellation area, in Montels, on clay-limestone soils. The grape varieties are typical of the region: a majority of syrah and len-de-l’el (loin de l’œil, so named because of the length of its petiole), and a few touches of braucol, duras, muscadelle, and sauvignon. All the grape varieties are blended and macerated in whole bunches for the most part; a small proportion of the grapes are destemmed by hand or pressed directly. Maceration takes place in stoneware jars for forty days and aging is done in two stages: ten months in vats and seven months in bottles. The nose is smoky, powerful, evoking cherry and grenadine. The palate is full of tension with fine herbal notes and rhubarb. The overall sensation is fresh, herbaceous, bordering on a northern red. A Poulsard du Midi, in a way!
Natural wine with no added sulfites.