Matassa

Brutal 2021

A wine that puts up its middle finger to the old school, stuffy side of wine — this is the Sex Pistols in a bottle of wine. This is like creative cuisine that creates something groundbreaking out of ingredients you’d never think would go together. Pepper fiend? Like orange blossom? Put the two together and bam - you have Matassa's Brutal. 

 

DETAILS ABOUT THE WINE:

Winemaker: Matassa

Farming: Biodynamic

Region: Roussillon, France

Vintage: 2021

Grapes: Syrah, Muscat

Colour: Red

ABV: 10.5%

Size: 75 cL

£39.00

Behind the Bottle

Matassa

After working with the only estate in South Africa (Welgemeend) that championed indigenous yeasts and lower yields in the late ’90s, Tom came to Roussillon and interned at Domaine Gauby for several years to explore Mediterranean varieties and climate. During this time, Tom met his wife, who just so happens to be Gauby’s sister and together they started Matassa in 2003. Fast forward today, Tom and Nathalie farm 20 hectares of different white & red varieties (Macabeu, Grenache Gris, Muscat d’Alexandrie, Muscat à petits grains, Carignan, Lledoner Pelut, Mourvèdre and Grenache) divided in various vineyards around the village of Calce and Espira-de-l’Agly where they now have settled with their estate ...