Had a couple of friends over for dinner and pulled out this beauty from the cellar. Although the wine is only a few years old and I went against the producers recommendations of keeping it under wraps for another 10 or so years to get the best from it, it tasted fantastic.
I would be happy to pronounce this wine better than most Bordeaux that I have tasted of recent. I also admire Aimé GUIBERT for what he has done Languedoc wines and their status internationally. For it was he that rejected the sale of land to the Mondavi, Parker, Frescobaldi, and Rothschild venture that would have seen his land, culture, tradition bastardised and all but destroyed with their industrial wine.
Aimé GUIBERT a still from “Mondovino.”
Without Aimé GUIBERT there would have been no Mondovino film and the Languedoc landscape would look very different. The wines certainly reflect the terrior for those that have visited the area near Aniane, Herault.
The wine exudes garrigue with herbs and dark wild fruit on the nose that lingers in the air. On the palate there is more evidence of terrior with a drying minerality and bright fruit that radiates throughout all corners of the mouth and stays there until your next mouthful.
What a wine! What a character! The world needs more people to assist and represent nature and the environment as Nicolas Joly and Aimé GUIBERT do!
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