Mas Jullien "Carlan" red 2022 (3 bottles)

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Mas Jullien "Carlan" red 2022

RVF Guide to the Best Wines of France 2025 (Sept. 2024): 96/100. Carlan 2022 is a wine that is all about enveloping and caressing, velvety, serene. The whole is lifted by a more chalky and structured finish, yet the tannin is both powerful and fine.

Comment from Olivier Jullien:A vintage full of subtlety, quite distant from the very vibrant 2021. A stylistic exercise that will reveal itself in youth primarily through its balance and mouthfeel and should find an additional expression in the coming years. There are juices that are born in the mouths of giants and others in the heart of a handful of rock

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

THE INTENTION: Initially, only the magic and beauty of this place prevailed in the acquisition of this parcel of land. Quickly, its uniqueness became evident, and the choice to maintain its production in its uniqueness and singularity became imperative. A place like this is a bit like a powerful antenna connected to everything. Wine is a cosmic link, an interface between stone and infinity.
 
TERROIR: It is the median line, the point of balance between basic limestone and acidic schist. A neutral zone where all essences can thrive. It consists of sandstone, sharpening stone for knives, used to make millstones, pure mineral! The exposure is also very particular: only facing east, benefiting from the rising sun, this land avoids the last hot hours of the day. Finally, the final bouquet, 200 meters of
elevation between the top and bottom of the parcel, dotted with huge stones. It’s a col out of category…
 
METHOD OF CULTIVATION: The same philosophy as for all the vines of the domaine, Organic farming AB, except here everything takes on unprecedented proportions (movements, construction of walls, percentage of slopes, more significant work with a pickaxe…). Sweat and muscle! A pause in this place is a moment of eternity, a simple and whole presence.
 
GRAPE VARIETIES: Grenache 50%, Carignan 30%, Cinsault 10%, Syrah 10%.
 
VINIFICATION: All done gently, as usual, but here particularly because the maturities sometimes take a long time to reach their optimum. The uniqueness of this terroir, which tastes very well and very quickly, leads us to delicately accompany the juices in their slow and progressive transformations. Juicy, bright, slender, and tenacious. It’s a vintage of great gustatory aesthetics.
 
AGING: In demi-muids of 600 liters for just over a year. Rigorous selection of coopers.
 
TASTING: It’s a wine of contrast that, under an apparent simplicity, conceals a universe of infinite subtlety. A wine with voluptuous modesty that plays with all circumstances and comparisons.
 
SERVICE: To be enjoyed slightly chilled and especially to be allowed to breathe in the glass and during the meal.
 
TO BE ENJOYED BLIND WITH CURIOUS FRIENDS AND/OR COMPLICE FRIENDS.