Brutal is Dead, Long Live Brutal! Red 2019

Brutal is Dead, Long Live Brutal! Red 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 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, which reinvents itself 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.
This wine is a blend of three Languedoc terroirs: Vieussan and Cabrerolles in Hérault, both with schist soils, and Lagrasse, clay-limestone, in Aude. The grape varieties are 60% Cinsault (65-year-old vines), 35% Grenache (45-year-old vines), and 5% Muscat of Alexandria (40-year-old vines). Vinification is carried out using separate grape varieties: 60 days in whole bunches and in near-infusion for the Cinsaults, a 53-day soak (in direct-press must) for the Grenaches, and a maceration for the Muscats with manual destemming. The blend is made before winter for aging for nine months in vats. The nose is superb, floral, strawberry, and cherry... and the palate is a delight, drinkability is at its peak. Fine and easy-drinking but never overly simplistic. Beautiful balance.
Natural wine with no added sulfites.