Aroma Maiden Red 2018

Arôme Maiden Rouge 2018,

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 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 boast such a wide variety of grape varieties: the entire south of France is represented, with muscats, grenaches, picpoul, mauzac, carignan, cinsault, marsanne, alicante, braucol, duras, viognier, len-de-l’el, and all the rest.
It comes from the clay-limestone terroirs of Montels, in the Gaillac appellation area, and is composed of seventy percent syrah and thirty percent sauvignon blanc. Vinification is carried out by blending whole bunches, manually destemmed berries, and a little press wine. Maceration takes place in vats for sixty days, followed by ten months of aging in sandstone jars and then a year in bottles. The nose is smoky, floral, with violets, and the palate is full of tension, with a fresh herbaceous note where we find the flowers announced by the nose. The finish is very tangy, deep and dense.
Natural wine without added sulfites.