Mas Jullien - Languedoc Rosé 2023 (750ml)
Price: $35.99
| Producer | Mas Jullien |
| Country | France |
| Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Varietal | Cinsault, Carignan, Mourvèdre |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Sku | 70939 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Mas Jullien Description
As a boy in the late 70’s, Olivier Jullien witnessed the winegrowers’ uprisings in the Languedoc provoked by economic difficulties that beset (and continue to plague) small, independent farmers. The Languedoc’s vineyards were in a critical state, with decades of over cropping to produce inexpensive wine with little thought coming to a painful but necessary end. The region’s youth wanted nothing more than to leave viticulture behind, but Olivier became one of the region’s great pioneers. Only 20 years old when he converted some of the family farm’s outbuildings into a cellar, he began vinifying and bottling his wines under the Mas Jullien label. Olivier’s success was such that he inspired his father to withdraw from the co-operative and create his own winery, Mas Cal Demoura, in 1993.
Today, the Mas Jullien holds 15ha of vines scattered around the village of Jonquières, north of Montpellier and 40 km inland from the Mediterranean. The vines grow on the rocky terraces of the Larzac plateau at the foot of Mont Baudille, planted at up to 900 m, at some of the highest altitudes in the region.
This is a saignée rosé made from juice that is bled off the skins of red grapes from Jullien’s vineyards on the Terraces du Larzac. In descending order of percentage, it is Cinsault, Carignan, and Mourvèdre, though the blend can change from vintage to vintage.
Truly a wine of terroir, this is the one of the most structured rosés we see each season, a somewhat wild wine of deep, earthy complexity that does beautifully at the table with virtually any grilled fare.
