Chateau Maris "La Touge" Minervois La Liviniere 2019

Wine & Spirits : 95 Points

(6/2022) Robert Eden pulls this wine from his biodynamically tended vineyards in the rocky, windy highlands of La Liviniere. A blend of syrah with grenache and carignan, it’s a wine you can sink your teeth into, and it responds with juicy black fruit, spicy and fresh, and notes of mint, licorice and rose. Vinified in cement eggs and vats, it retains a sense of cool, stony clarity that brings light to its darkness and beams them into long-lasting fragrance. It’s at once firmly structured and ethereal, a balance that makes it addictive as well as potentially long-lived.