Domaine et Terroirs du Sud, 1928 Sweet Wine
Maury
Sweet red wine
Bottle size: 75cl
ABV: 12%
Price:
£395.00
Out of stock
Description
1928 Domaine et Terroirs deu Sud - Review by Jancis Robinson - 18/20
...Seriously good-value sweet wine antiques that you can drink over quite a time as they retain their fruit and freshness well in an opened bottle...Roussillon around Perpignan just north of the Pyrenees has for decades been most famous with French wine drinkers for its strong sweet wines with names such as Banyuls, Maury and Rivesaltes. These depend mainly on old Grenache bushvines in varying colours of grapes which reach great ripeness in the region’s hot, windy summers. They are typically vinified like port, the grape sugar being retained in the wine by stopping fermentation with added alcohol (particularly strong and pure in this case), and are then aged in wood or glass for very long periods. Some wines here are put into glass bonbonnes and even deliberately exposed to heat as in the Madeira process. The result is a wide range of different strong, sweet wines (vins doux naturels in French) which are virtually indestructible but, while they fit in to a wine drinker’s repertoire very much like a port, they are much rarer than port and many tasters, even quite experienced ones, have little exposure to the various styles on offer. Maury 1928 - Rose/brick very vibrant colour. Quite deep flavoured with a real undertow and a dry finish after very subtle dried rose petal flavours. STILL some tannin! Quite subtle and lingering. Made from pre-phylloxera vines, aged in glass bonbonnes outside for a year - how do they know?! - and then in cask apparently. 16 per cent
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Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, May 2005
Condition
Excellent