2021 Mataburro Memo

WINEMAKER: Laurent Roger & Melissa Ingrand
REGION: Roussillon, FR
VARIETAL: Macabeu
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic

"This cuvee called Memo is the first white wine from Laurent and Melissa and a wonderful wine it is! Made from 100% Macabeo (Macabeu), it is saline, mineral, very energetic and with a lovely, light, lingering freshness. The seventy year old grapes underwent a short maceration to bring out the best of this under-rated grape variety that takes well to this treatment. This wine has no additions, including no added sulphites, and no fining or filtration. It clocks in at only 11.5% alcohol." - Living Wines

Mataburro is a small domaine established in Roussillon by rising stars Laurent Roger & Melissa Ingrand. Laurent worked for several years at the venerable Paris bar à vin Le Verre Volé and after that returned to Roussillon to work directly with Alain Castex, then of Le Casot des Mailloles. Towards the end of 2017, armed with what he had learned from Castex, he and Melissa took over the remaining three hectare vineyard from his father, swiftly converting to organics and biodynamics. Alain Castex taught Laurent the importance of the soil. He also had this concept reinforced by Tom Lubbe and Axel Prüfer.