JC Sparkling White 2019

JC 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 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 dizzying 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 entire south of France is included, with muscats, grenaches, picpoul, mauzac, carignan, cinsault, marsanne, alicante, braucol, duras, viognier, len-de-l’el, and all the rest.
The Villafranchian terroirs of Aspiran, in the high country of Hérault, produced the white grenache (sixty-two-year-old vines) from which this Jean-Claude, a natural white sparkling wine, is made, the label of which is inspired by a Van Damme who is more aware than ever. The harvest is pressed directly, and only the "heart of the press," which has not been settled, is retained. Bottling is carried out by gravity, at the full moon. The wine is aged for one year on slats, and disgorged manually by the winemaker. On the nose, lemon, pear, and anise immediately assert themselves: a pleasant start heralding a well-taut palate, a fine effervescence, plenty of clarity, and brightness. A pet' nat' that is not without depth and can be enjoyed from aperitif to dessert and for all celebrations.
Natural wine with no added sulfites.