Mas de Daumas Gassac White 2008

If you particularly enjoy fruity aromas and fresh wine, drink it within one and three years. If you enjoy the subtle taste of good white dry sherry, then lay down your Daumas Gassac whites for at least five years-even ten! The mysterious tertiary characteristics are quite amazing.

" Daumas Gassac brought new ideas to the Languedoc by farming organically, using low-yielding old clone vines and planting a multitude of grape varieties to build complexity in their wines. The French magazine Gault-Milau called Daumas Gassac "Lafite Rothchild of the Languedoc-Roussillon" while the London Times argued that it tasted like a "Latour"; Hugh Johnson called it "the only Grand Cru of the Midi", Michael Broadbent wrote "One of the ten best wines in the world" and Robert Parker, Jr. claimed it to be "Exceptional" and "One of the most remarkable non-appellation wines of France." The Wine Spectator's 1994 article on this region concluded, "Only four wines rated outstanding, and they are all from the same producer - Mas de Daumas Gassac, the undisputed star of the Languedoc-Roussillon."

Sunday Tribune Piece April 2010

http://www.sourgrapes.ie/2010/04/24/three-from-red-nose-wine/