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Winemakers
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Clos del Rey, Vin de Pays d’Oc
Jacques Montagné
Jacques Montagné has been a vigneron in Maury, in the Agly valley,
for a number of years, but only bottled his first wine from the
2001 vintage. The vines came through his wife’s family, and many
are of very old vines, re-planted just after the phylloxera
epidemic at the beginning of the last century. The wine he bottles
is a selection from his best parcelles, and the majority of his
grapes still go to the co-operative, leaving him free to
concentrate on small plots of chosen vines on which he
meticulously lowers the yield, and from which he produces a
superbly concentrated, rich yet elegant wine. His vines are some
of the highest in Maury, at between 100 and 300 metres above sea
level, and his chosen parcelles are of
old Grenache on schistous soil, with some Carignan and syrah on a
clay based soil. The 2002 Vin de Pays is rich, minerally, perfumed
and peppery, with firm ripe tannins, excellent balance, and great
length and surprising finesse. (He has had to call the Vin de Pays
“Mas del Rey”, as “Clos” is now reserved for a small
quantity of Appellation Cotes du Roussillon which he will be
producing from the 2003 vintage.) We have now sold out of the
2002, the 2003 will be shipped in Spring 2005.
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