Pont de Gassac Rouge 2016
The Herault’s most famous estate, Mas de Daumas-Gassac is often referred to as ‘the Lafite or First Growth of the Languedoc’ - their wines have achieved ‘cult’ status. Pont de Gassac Rouge comes from their vineyards high up in the Gassac valley. 2016 was a great vintage for the estate. This fine blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah is drinking really well now and will last for a good 5 years and more. This is a very well made and serious wine which snaps at the heels of the estate's first wine and at 1/3 of the price is a great bargain.
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Wine Data
Grape variety:
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah
Appellation:
Pays D’Herault
Alcohol:
13%
About
The Guiberts hired the best wine brains available, including Professor Emile Peynaud – a great oenologist associated with Bordeaux. Peynaud advised them exactly which vines to plant and how. Although Cabernet Sauvignon was the grape variety planted for the first vintages, the idea was not to mimic Bordeaux, even though one commentator called the 1982 vintage the ‘Lafite of the Languedoc’. This caused initially slow sales to rocket. The wines of Mas de Daumas-Gassac have a degree of natural austerity that is more akin to the great wines of Bordeaux or the Loire, than the Languedoc.