2023 Mataburro Memo

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

"A maceration of whole bunches of macabeu (5 days for one fibreglass tank and 7 for the other with no intervention during that time. After pressing the wine was aged in fibreglass. Approximately 70 year old vines growing on clay and rolled pebbles in Espira-de-l'Agly. The vines were planted by Laurent's grandfather but were purchased by him a few years ago. 2021 was the first vintage. 11% ABV" - 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.