The Winery Mas de La Roque of Vin de Pays

Winery Mas de La Roque
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 36 of the estates of Vin de Pays.
It is located in Vin de Pays

The Winery Mas de La Roque is one of the world's great estates. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Vin de Pays to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Mas de La Roque wines

Looking for the best Winery Mas de La Roque wines in Vin de Pays among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Mas de La Roque wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Mas de La Roque wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Mas de La Roque

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Mas de La Roque

How Winery Mas de La Roque wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of beef tagine with prunes and almonds, pasta gratin carbonara style or veal shoulder with cream and tarragon.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Mas de La Roque

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Mas de La Roque. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Mas de La Roque

  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Mas de La Roque.

  • Grenache
  • Carignan
  • Pinot Noir
  • Mourvedre
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Vin de Pays

Vin de Pays (VDP), the French national equivalent of PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) at the European level, is a quality category of French wines, positioned between Vin de Table (VDT) and Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC). This layer of the French appellation system was initially introduced in September 1968 by the INAO, the official appellation authority. It underwent several early revisions in the 1970s, followed by substantial changes in September 2000 and again in 2009, when all existing VDT titles were automatically registered with the European Union as PGI. Producers retain the choice of using either the VDP or PGI titles on their labels, or both - in the form "IGP-Vin de Pays".

There are now more than 150 VDP/IGP titles, mainly covering the southern third of France. The "Vin de Pays" level is intended to benefit both consumers and wine producers. It allows consumers to know clearly where a wine comes from, while producers are empowered to produce wine outside the constraints of traditional AOC laws. The most obvious freedoms are the higher yields allowed and a more comprehensive list of permitted Grape varieties.

The top white wines of Winery Mas de La Roque

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Mas de La Roque

How Winery Mas de La Roque wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of millet with gruyere cheese, chicken tagine or fondue savoyarde style.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Mas de La Roque.

  • Macabeo
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre
  • Carignan

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Mas de La Roque

Planning a wine route in the of Vin de Pays? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Mas de La Roque.

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Mas de La Roque and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’

Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

Long Read: Biodiversity in the vineyard – looking to the future

It’s no secret that climate change is breaking records for heatwaves, frosts, fires, droughts, hail and wildfires. Their increasing frequency has left the wine world awash with initiatives, conferences, and research all concerning sustainable viticulture and its many facets: biodiversity, regenerative agriculture and the host of organic, biodynamic and sustainable labels or certifications they embody. More than simple posturing, many are concerned with the very real practicalities of saving wate ...

The word of the wine: Pressing

Mechanical action consisting of pressing the grapes (before fermentation for whites) or the marc soaked in wine (after fermentation for reds).