Languedoc
Créature - 2023 - Sébastien et Franck Agelet
Domaine De Mena
“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.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
A blended cuvée of old Carignan (40%) vines and young Syrah (30%) and Grenache (30%) vines. Franck Agelet, Sébastien’s brother, is an owner of certified organic vines and offered his brother to vinify them together. What a fine idea! The grapes are harvested by hand with small crates. Vinification: co-maceration of all three grape varieties in vats during 7 days, in whole bunches, 8 months of maturation in stainless steel tanks, no filtration or fining, and just even a micro-dose of sulphur at bottling, on the 2nd of April 2024.
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...
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