Heavy Going

We drank a sparkling wine that had intrigued me on Green & Blue's website - Mauzac Nature from Domaine les Tres Cantous. The 'mauzac' in the name is the variety of grape, another unusual one that I had not tried before. This wine was as interesting in the glass as it was in its making, which included organic grape farming and the use of local yeasts. The wine was a straw colour and densely opaque in the glass, smelling heavily of orchard fruit and still-fermenting yeast. It had a very heavy pear and honey flavour, topped up with yet more of the raw yeast. It had more bubbles than I expected, but they didn't last throughout the glass. This was not a sipping wine - it's not at all crisp or refreshing - and was such heavy going that I couldn't finish mine. My husband quite liked it with our food - broad bean and pea pasta, with crisp, lemony flavours - but agreed it wouldn't have been suitable as an aperitif. Thankfully he liked it enough to finish mine!