Robert & Bernard Plageoles Mauzac Nature Sparkling 2020 gaillac 6 million year old calcsilicate

6 million year old calcsilicate geological stratum lifted into place by a fault at the edge of The Tiers Vineyard

elegant and rewarding wine with lots of flesh

The skin soaking is limited to 6-8 days so to extract few tannins and more colour from the skins themselves

The fruit is in the fresh white pear spectrum with perhaps some citric elements

fresh herbs and white floral notes

Robert & Bernard Plageoles Mauzac Nature Sparkling 2020 gaillac 6 million year old calcsilicateGaillac has a long history of producing mthode ancestrale (pet nat) sparkling wines a history that goes back to the 1500s (long before Champagne began producing sparkling wines). In fact, so synonymous was Gaillac with pet nats back in the day that mthode gaillacoise was a widely used synonym for mthode ancestrale. The Plageoles example is made from the exceptionally rare Mauzac Ros grape variety, one of the indigenous grapes that has been used to