Robert & Bernard Plageoles Mauzac Nature Sparkling 2020 gaillac While the AOC allows for

While the AOC allows for up to 30% of Tannat or Merlot

6 million year old calcsilicate geological stratum lifted into place by a fault at the edge of The Tiers Vineyard

is an aromatic and full-bodied white wine with a light to somewhat stronger nose and pleasantly dry

The skin soaking is limited to 6-8 days so to extract few tannins and more colour from the skins themselves

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Robert & Bernard Plageoles Mauzac Nature Sparkling 2020 gaillac While the AOC allows forGaillac has a long history of producing mthode ancestrale (pet nat) sparkling wines a history that goes back to the 1500s (long before Champagne began producing sparkling wines). In fact, so synonymous was Gaillac with pet nats back in the day that mthode gaillacoise was a widely used synonym for mthode ancestrale. The Plageoles example is made from the exceptionally rare Mauzac Ros grape variety, one of the indigenous grapes that has been used to