Domaine de l’Agramante Cuvée M’arricriu Rouge 2023

The story of L’Agramante is one you have certainly heard before. It’s a story that weaves it’s way into every corner of human existence and one that the year 2020 brought to the fore for many. Carlo La Rocca, originally from Sicily but working in France, found himself looking at his life in 2018 and feeling unfulfilled. His career was in engineering but his passion was in wine. So he quit a successful career and set out to make a new life based around the rhythms of nature in the southern Rhone Valley of France. He bought a 1.2 HA plot of vines in the town of Sabran and began the search for a cellar to make the wine. He was able to acquire more vines – growing to 4.25 HA, but was unable to find a Cellar. Eventually he was allowed to share space in the cellar of the biodynamic producer Mas de Libian. This arrangement ended up being very fortuitous as Carlo was able to consult with them and learned from them as he started his new journey. The farming has been organic and the winemaking very hands-off from the beginning. There is no oak involved and the wines are bright, charming and very refreshing on multiple levels.