“It's Alive! Aliiiive!” So reads the back label on this vibrant wine. A nose of tart red fruits, garrigue, and cherry stones... Palate: a juice with great depth, balanced by beautiful freshness and great drinkability.
Sébastien Agelet
Sébastien Agelet is a vigneron in Paziols in southern France, 15 km from the sea between Leucate and Perpignan. His story is much like that of many winemakers, as a man who’d always delivered his family’s grapes to the cooperative, until the day that he discovered a passion for making wine himself... It was in 2012 that he rebaptised his estate De Mena, which in Catalan, his region’s ancestral language, means "from nature". There’s no going against one’s nature, especially when one has a deep desire to make wine! It was a project that had time to mature, as Agelet had already been tending to the estate’s vines for 10 years. He’s a vigneron already well-known in the natural wine galaxy, and one could get the wrong idea seeing his chic labels seemingly stamped with marketing savvy. But that’s just a distraction, a disguise for the bottles and for a man in reality quite discrete, a winemaker of great sensitivity and abundant talent.