Mas de Daumas Gassac Rose Frizant 2024 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 and redcurrants supported by firm

and redcurrants supported by firm tannins—English thyme and bay laurel carry through a finish built for 20+ years of cellaring

family legacy

and no fining or filtration

Distillation: Double in a copper alembic still

50-year-old vines cling to iron-rich slate on the south-facing Niedermenniger Sonnenberg

Mas de Daumas Gassac Rose Frizant 2024 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 and redcurrants supported by firmEven legendary estates want something easy to drink. Mas de Daumas Gassac put the Languedoc on the fine wine map in the 1970s with wines so iconoclastic that people started comparing the reds to Bordeaux's greatest names. The Rose Frizant is the estate's off duty bottle: a sparkling rose made by sealing the wine in a pressurized tank before fermentation finishes, so the bubbles are simply the CO2 the wine made on its own. No added sugar, no added