Sorga Africa Red 2019

Sorga Africa Rouge 2019,

La Sorga

"Antony Tortul loves old vineyards: he devotes his life to finding and vinifying them. Just as there are landless shepherds, he can be defined as a landless winegrower, in other words, a wine merchant whose area of ​​activity 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 created 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 dizzying mosaic of natural, lively, and spirited wines, which reinvents itself each year with around thirty cuvées by vintage. Few winemakers can list 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.
Sorga Africa is a blend of cinsault (seventy percent, sixty-five-year-old vines) and carignan (thirty percent, sixty-five-year-old vines) grown in Cabrerolles, in the Faugères appellation area on schist soils. The two grape varieties macerate separately in whole bunches in a quasi-infusion, with light punching down and rack and return, for sixty and thirty-five days respectively. Aging takes place in vats for seven months. This wine shows very good air resistance. On the nose, it offers beautiful floral and peppery notes Evoking warm stone and black fruits. The palate is very rich, full and fresh. Its aging potential is ten years. This is the first vintage of this cuvée to be drinkable so soon after bottling: it is already ready to pair with oriental or African cuisines - North African or sub-Saharan, or to feature in a summer barbecue. Spices, even chili, will go very well with it. One love!
Natural wine with no added sulfites.