{"product_id":"chateau-maris-les-amandiers-minervois-la-liviniere-2023","title":"Château Maris Les Amandiers Minervois La Livinière 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis wine shows how truly great wine from Languedoc can be - if you give it the chance to shine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s from Château Maris in La Livinière - one of the Languedoc’s best wineries producing rich reds in one of the Languedoc’s best areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBen Darnault of Mas Calamiac fame is the head winemaker here - everything he touches seems to turn to (liquid) gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason this wine is so good, is that absolutely zero expense is spared in the making of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s from the oldest Syrah vineyard at Château Maris, which is totally organic, biodynamic and dry-grown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe immaculate fruit is hand-picked in the vineyard and then each berry is painstakingly hand-removed from the stems in the winery. The whole process takes two days and ten people!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Ben tells me this meticulous work is completely worth it - it produces the perfect ferment and as a winemaker there’s very little he needs to do with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine spends 18-24 months in new French oak and then finishes its ageing in concrete eggs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou end up with a wine with incredible intensity and gorgeous bright aromatics, but it’s also so easy to drink - which is how you know that Ben Darnault has had his hands on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you love a good \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCôte-Rôtie, but don’t love shelling out €100+ for it, then you’ll be in heaven with this wine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WineSpark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57375066227019,"sku":"CMAMD23","price":33.98,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/0645\/5483\/files\/WS-HighKey_0302.jpg?v=1784135856","url":"https:\/\/winespark.com\/products\/chateau-maris-les-amandiers-minervois-la-liviniere-2023","provider":"WineSpark","version":"1.0","type":"link"}