Grenache Gris / Macabeo
Guru 2023 magnum
Mataburro

Grape Variety: Grenache Gris, Macabeo

Producer: Mataburro

Region: Rivesaltes, Pyrénées-Orientales, Roussillon, France

Wild Scale: 4/5

Vegan friendly wine

Winemaking: Organic Grenache Gris and Macabeo grapes were harvested by hand. Crushed and macerated  before fermentation with indigenous yeast in fibreglass tanks. Aged in stainless steel. Bottled with no fining, filtration or added sulphur

This Wine: Natural skin contact wine in magnum format. This is a very special cuvée made with grapes from the vines formally owned by the late Alain Castex who Laurent studied under and saw him as the guru of natural winemaking. The wine is golden in colour with a great concentration of minerals, citrus and stone fruit flavours. Very small production and will age very well. 

Notes on the Winemaker: Mataburro is the project of natural winemakers Laurent Roger and Melissa Ingrand in Rivesaltes which isn't far from Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales region of Southern France. Laurent comes from a a family of winemakers who threw in the towel at the turn of the millenium when the sweet Muscat historically produced in this region fell out fashion in the global market. He had left his hometown of Rivesaltes to work in Paris where he fell in love with natural wine. To his father's amazement, he returned home with a clear vision to return to the vines that he had worked as a child. Inspired by time learning from natural wine legend Alain Castex, Laurent creates wines with amazing freshness considering the warm Mediterranean climate. Mataburro means Donkey Killer which refers to a railway that runs through the vineyard. When it opened in 1910, a train sadly killed 2 donkeys on the first day.