Higa 2022 Region|Roussillon

Higa 2022 Region|RoussillonHiga is all salt on the Atlantic sea breeze and scorched charcoal minerality, making for a more savoury, saline expression. The delicate tannins stand like a sort of intricate, skeletal framework around the wine, where earthy elements meld with secondary notes from the time in barrel, the fruit feeling less to the fore. Mainly Listan Negro, with 10% Tintilla Castellana from one of the relatively young plantings of vines at some 30 years of age,

As the name suggests

but here you can appreciate how magical it can be when fermented dry

Co-fermented

Cabernet Sauvignon

The grapes are de-stemmed and then see a long maceration of 19 days before being pressed into clay amphora for a full year

The result is a concentrated

The bitters really sit to the front here

The grapes are pressed directly and aged in barrel

this is 100% Syrah given a twelve-day

the wine returned to these tanks to rest for 11 months before bottling

ever-so-funky Carignan character is still at the door

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