Mas de Gourgonnier Les Baux de Provence Rosé 2024
Location: France, Provence
Winemaker: Luc, Frederic, & Eve Cartier
Grapes: Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Mourvèdre
From the importer Ideal Wines: Between Avignon and the sea there is a range of rocky hills rising from the Rhone valley, the Alpilles. Dotted with thousand year old fortified villages and pockets of olives and vines, this is the very heart of Provence, Les Baux de Provence, where the garrigue perfumes the air. Here’s where you find Mas de Gourgonnier, a family-run estate that’s been organic as long as anyone can remember. Luc and Frederic Cartier, succeeded their dad Nicolas, cultivating 47 hectares of vines, and 20 hectares of olives. And now Luc’s daughter Eve is gradually taking the reins.
The climate certainly makes organic farming somewhat easier, as the hot, dry, windy conditions naturally control many vine pests and diseases. They follow the Nature & Progress regime, and are certified organic by Ecocert.
Everything is hand-harvested, and vinified traditionally. The red wines are aged in magnificent huge old wooden vats. They also make a lovely rose: pink flowers, grapefruit rind, with delicate jellied rosepetal and touches of meatiness.
From us at M&L: Mas de Gourgonnier wines were some of the very first that I remember enjoying as a young person. There was a liquor store on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn that carried them, and I’m pretty sure I initially bought the Provence red because I could afford it and for its unique, squat bottle. Fast forward twenty years, and they are still wines that I look forward to, each vintage. Case in point, their 2021 Rosé just arrived and it’s slapping. The limestone hills of the Alpilles provide backbone, and the southern sun the pithy-melon fruit. If you’re thirsty now, cop it for day drinking, and if you’re looking for something to cellar (for a song), lay any of Gourgonnier’s bottles down.-Peter
Location: France, Provence
Winemaker: Luc, Frederic, & Eve Cartier
Grapes: Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Mourvèdre
From the importer Ideal Wines: Between Avignon and the sea there is a range of rocky hills rising from the Rhone valley, the Alpilles. Dotted with thousand year old fortified villages and pockets of olives and vines, this is the very heart of Provence, Les Baux de Provence, where the garrigue perfumes the air. Here’s where you find Mas de Gourgonnier, a family-run estate that’s been organic as long as anyone can remember. Luc and Frederic Cartier, succeeded their dad Nicolas, cultivating 47 hectares of vines, and 20 hectares of olives. And now Luc’s daughter Eve is gradually taking the reins.
The climate certainly makes organic farming somewhat easier, as the hot, dry, windy conditions naturally control many vine pests and diseases. They follow the Nature & Progress regime, and are certified organic by Ecocert.
Everything is hand-harvested, and vinified traditionally. The red wines are aged in magnificent huge old wooden vats. They also make a lovely rose: pink flowers, grapefruit rind, with delicate jellied rosepetal and touches of meatiness.
From us at M&L: Mas de Gourgonnier wines were some of the very first that I remember enjoying as a young person. There was a liquor store on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn that carried them, and I’m pretty sure I initially bought the Provence red because I could afford it and for its unique, squat bottle. Fast forward twenty years, and they are still wines that I look forward to, each vintage. Case in point, their 2021 Rosé just arrived and it’s slapping. The limestone hills of the Alpilles provide backbone, and the southern sun the pithy-melon fruit. If you’re thirsty now, cop it for day drinking, and if you’re looking for something to cellar (for a song), lay any of Gourgonnier’s bottles down.-Peter
Location: France, Provence
Winemaker: Luc, Frederic, & Eve Cartier
Grapes: Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Mourvèdre
From the importer Ideal Wines: Between Avignon and the sea there is a range of rocky hills rising from the Rhone valley, the Alpilles. Dotted with thousand year old fortified villages and pockets of olives and vines, this is the very heart of Provence, Les Baux de Provence, where the garrigue perfumes the air. Here’s where you find Mas de Gourgonnier, a family-run estate that’s been organic as long as anyone can remember. Luc and Frederic Cartier, succeeded their dad Nicolas, cultivating 47 hectares of vines, and 20 hectares of olives. And now Luc’s daughter Eve is gradually taking the reins.
The climate certainly makes organic farming somewhat easier, as the hot, dry, windy conditions naturally control many vine pests and diseases. They follow the Nature & Progress regime, and are certified organic by Ecocert.
Everything is hand-harvested, and vinified traditionally. The red wines are aged in magnificent huge old wooden vats. They also make a lovely rose: pink flowers, grapefruit rind, with delicate jellied rosepetal and touches of meatiness.
From us at M&L: Mas de Gourgonnier wines were some of the very first that I remember enjoying as a young person. There was a liquor store on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn that carried them, and I’m pretty sure I initially bought the Provence red because I could afford it and for its unique, squat bottle. Fast forward twenty years, and they are still wines that I look forward to, each vintage. Case in point, their 2021 Rosé just arrived and it’s slapping. The limestone hills of the Alpilles provide backbone, and the southern sun the pithy-melon fruit. If you’re thirsty now, cop it for day drinking, and if you’re looking for something to cellar (for a song), lay any of Gourgonnier’s bottles down.-Peter