Mas Amiel Oiseau Rare AOC Maury Sec 2022 (Red)

TASTING NOTES: MAS AMIEL’s emblem, OISEAU RARE, is pure, precise and dynamic. The characteristics associated with Grenache come immediately to the fore with fresh and juicy aromas of grapes, followed by a basket of fresh strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. This is a fragrant wine where notes of dried rose petals combine with wild cherries and rockrose. It then offers a trip into a sappier, aniseed and mentholated universe. Multi-dimensional like origami, this wine’s fruity palate is creamy and mouth-watering with finely grained tannins. The mineral taste is therefore offered by the terroir’s rocky terrain.

FOOD PAIRINGS : Perfect match with tagine, beef stew and monkfish roasted with smoked bacon.

TERROIR AND VINE MANAGEMENT: OISEAU RARE reflects at once the landscape and the terroir of MAS AMIEL. Like an origami, it sums up an array of vineyard plots. With its perfect selection of the different terroirs, MAS AMIEL asserts a pure, precise, complex and energetic style.

A generation of organic and biodynamic growing was required to reveal the location’s natural balance. Our approach to agriculture, organic and biodynamic practices aims to create a wine reflecting the schist terroir.

GRAPE VARIETIES: Our heritage, a conservatory of old Grenaches, the oldest of which date back to 1914, is MAS AMIEL’s pride and joy. We are committed to the transmission and the consolidation of their identity across generations.

GRAPE HARVEST: Hand-picked, manual double sorting of the grape bunches on a conveyor belt and a vibrating table, destemming.

WINEMAKING: Plot by plot wine making in stainless steel vats. Natural yeast, without winemaking additives or SO2. Gentle winemaking with an infusion, entirely respecting the textures of the fruit and the soil.

MATURATION AND BOTTLING: Maturing in concrete vats until bottling without any addition of SO2. Very light SO2 adjustment just before bottling.

GUARD TIME: 5 to 10 Years