Merlot
Idoine 2023
Mataburro

Grape Variety: Merlot

Producer: Mataburro (Laurent Roger and Melissa Ingrand)

Region: Rivesaltes, Pyrénées-Orientales, Roussillon, France

Wild Scale: 3/5

Vegan friendly wine

12% alcohol

Winemaking: Organic Merlot grapes from 40 year old vines were harvested by hand and lightly crushed before a 5 day whole bunch maceration. Fermentation with indigenous yeast in fibreglass. Aged in steel tanks. Bottled with no fining, filtration or added sulphur.

This Wine: A natural red wine with a light body, virtually no tannin and fresh acidity. Fully fruit focussed with notes of fresh Strawberry and red cherry. Great slightly chilled. 

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. They make 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.