Fire I White 2019

Feu I Blanc 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 founded La Sorga in 2008. His enthusiasm leads him on a path filled with favorites, and each of these favorites is a vineyard. The result is a dizzying mosaic of natural, lively, and spirited wines, which reinvent themselves 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. The label sets the bar very high: Gustave Doré’s Dante crosses the raging Acheron in a boat and doesn’t seem very sure of himself, understandably. Don’t let this infernal image throw you off balance; Feu I, far from plunging you into hell, propels you into the paradise of aromatic white wines. Indeed, it is one hundred percent Terret Bourret (vines aged eight and sixty-five years) harvested on clay-limestone soils in Marseillan, near the Thau basin, and in Paulhan on Villafranchian limestone (all in Hérault). The harvest of old Terrets macerates in whole bunches in the juice pressed from the young Terrets for twenty-four days before aging in vats for nine months. On the nose, white pepper, tobacco, plum, sweet spices, we didn't tell you any stories above. The palate, in harmony, is long, lemony, saline (a typical note of these wines from the sandy coast of Languedoc), while remaining extremely fresh.
Natural wine without added sulfites.