Roussillon
Zuma - 2022 - Raphael Baissas
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Zuma is short for Moctezuma, the last Aztec emperor; this cuvée was vinified with Oscar Mancillas, a Mexican-born winemaker! An exotic nose of roasted pineapple, passion fruit, dried apricot, and white flowers. Palate: taut, with mouthwatering acidity and lovely bitter notes on the finish.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
A blended cuvée of: 70% Grenache Gris, 15% Grenache Blanc and 15% Macabeu, from vines grown organically and in conversion to biodynamics, planted in Montner in the Lô Roc area, on schist soils. Manual harvest, with low yields of 10 hl/ha. Natural vinification, direct pressing of the three grape varieties, co-vinification, aging in stainless steel vats. Bottled in Spring 2023 without fining or filtration, and just a micro-dose of sulphur.
Raphael Baissas
Raphael Baissas is the very definition of a free spirit. This thirty-something native of Perpignan, born to a wine merchant father and an artist mother, did a fair bit of wandering before he stumbled onto the vineyard path. As a lover of graffiti and techno, Raph was first drawn to the city life of concerts, cinema and computers, and even landed a job at Apple... But in 2014, the call of...
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