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Mas Foulaquier La Chouette Blanche 2021

  • $ 45.99

Description

Tags: France, Grenache Blanc, Languedoc-Roussillon, Natural, New, Organic Wine, White Wine

Region: Languedoc, France
Appellation: Pic-Saint-Loup
Color/Style: White Wine
Grapes: Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris

Mas Foulaquier was created in 1998 by a Swiss engineer, Pierre Jequier, who dreamt of getting away from it all and working as a vigneron making wine as naturally and in as low-intervention of a fashion as possible. 

Pierre set up shop at Mas Foulaquier in Pic St Loup, the northernmost of Languedoc appellations. Later, his wife Blandine Chauchet (also a winemaker) joined forces with him, and brought to the domaine an additional 3ha of 50+ year-old Grenache and Carignan vines in the lieu-dit of "Les Tonillières". Blandine similarly had a previous professional life as a parliamentary assistant in Paris; she was seduced by wine while tasting in the Assemblé Nationale's Wine Club, which later led her to harvest in Cairanne, prune in Muscadet, and finally study winemaking in Macon, before starting at Mas Foulaquier.

This Chouette Blanche is a white blend of Grenache blanc, Grenache gris, Bourboulenc, Rolle et Clairette and is the domaine's flagship wine, and is noteworthy given its distinct minerality and aromas of grapefruit and mandarin. It ages in a blend of clay amphorae and old wood. Its winemakers consider it an ideal pairing to fish, white meats, or oysters. The wine is named after a local bird with a white hue to it that brings to mind the color of this final, blended wine.

The St Guilhem-Le-Desert IGP is just north of Montpelier, near to the dry, garrigue-strewn decomposed limestone banks of the Herault River. It stretches to the north of Pic St Loup, as is the case in the Chouette Blanche's vineyard site in the town of Claret. The iconic Mas de Daumas Gassac has begun using the St Guilhem-Le-Desert IGP as well since the 2012 vintage (previously, it was sold as Vin de Pays d'Herault).

 

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