Mas de Daumas Gassac Rose Frizant 2024 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 50-year-old vines cling to iron-rich

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

stir a dash into a cocktail

Classic rhum agricole flavor bottled at an approachable 40% abv in Martinique

New Zealand and Australia before coming home to South Africa and setting up on the slopes above Bot River in 1999

Distillation: Double in a copper alembic still

Mas de Daumas Gassac Rose Frizant 2024 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 50-year-old vines cling to iron-richEven 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