2018 Les Amandiers, AOP Minervois la Liviniere, Château Maris
Minervois, Languedoc, France
Perhaps the world’s greenest wine project, Château Maris is located within the AOP Minervois La Livinière in the heart of the Languedoc, where the Mediterranean sea and the Pyrenees mountains come together. Winemaker Robert Eden is strongly committed to sustainable agriculture and follows organic and biodynamic principles.
The 2018 Les Amandiers is made with the grapes coming from a single parcel of just one hectare from some of the estate's oldest vines in La Livinière.
This exceptional vintage has a very limited yield. Made predominantly with Syrah grapes, this wine offers a wonderful bouquet of black fruit, blackcurrant and blackberry aromas, with notes of white flowers, wet rock and liquorice. The mouthfeel is full, powerful, and caressing. It's very velvety tannic structure balances its fruity richness and generous body, combining to give a lingering voluptuousness. Ageing potential: 10 -12 years
Whats in the bottle
100% Syrah
Notable Awards
95 points & Gold Medal, Decanter World Wine Awards 2022
“Hints of sweet vanilla follow intense minty cherry aromas, cedar wood and smoky oak. Rich, generous palate, ripe blackberries and velvety tannins, dark chocolate finish.”
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Perhaps the world’s greenest wine project, Château Maris is located within the of AOP Minervois La Livinière in the heart of the Languedoc, where the Mediterranean sea and the Pyrenees mountains come together.
Winemaker Robert Eden is strongly committed to sustainable agriculture and follows organic and biodynamic principles. Consisting of 120 acres, the estate is Certified Biodyvin, Demeter, and Biodynamic and every label baring the Maris name is certified organic at a minimum.
The estate that uses only native yeast, bottles without fining nor filtering, ploughs with Percheron horses, and has built the world’s first and only Hemp cellar: a sustainable, recyclable, vegetable based building that passively consumes and stores CO2. Maris is also the first and only B Corp Certified European winery, one of the most rigorous sustainability and social responsibility certifications in the world.
Wine Enthusiast
There are organic, sustainable and environmentally minded winemakers, and then there’s Chateau Maris. No one in France can compete.
Wine Spectator
“Top four wineries in the world confronting climate change head on.” “The Biodynamic Apostles of the Languedoc.”
Producer
Château Maris
Country
France
Size
750ml
Types
Red Wine
Vintage
2018
Region
Languedoc
Grape
Syrah
Sub-Region
Minervois
2018 Les Amandiers, AOP Minervois la Liviniere, Château Maris
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