Mas des Chimères "Nuit Grave" Terrasses du Larzac 2021

Mas des Chimères "Nuit Grave" Terrasses du Larzac 2021Press 4 Mix Red May 2025 Direct Press Selection Mas des Chimres, in the Languedoc, sits on prehistoric, 250 million year old soils. This is a family estate, led by Guilhem Dard, where everything is done by hand. They dont really have any other choice even if they wanted otherwise. The rough terrain is laden with hard volcanic rocks that would damage most machinery that tried to work it. This land sounds otherworldly. I mean literally, I keep hearing

WINEMAKER’S NOTES :

I knew I wanted to feature this wine

winemakers like Eddie Chami of Mersel are trying to move away from that

He interned and learned from many of the best in the Loire

This definitely occupies a similar style to my favorite lush and opulent wines from Jura

The Ancestrale III is comprised of 60% Malvasia di Liparu

Axel Prüfer’s wines were some of the first to make regular appearances in natural wine-focused lists here in NY

where successive generations have watched the market and the price of their wines take an epic nose dive

where she works organically in an isolated

Not to worry — the wine is so delicious that any chance of leftovers is slim

A blend of Carignan

planting grains in between the rows