Cazot Orange 2023 Vallee des Aigles, Serodes & Kovac

Delightfully aromatic Orange wine, made from a blend of Organic southern French grapes. Bottled unfiltered, this is a lovely, fresh, skin -contact wine, laden with exotic fruit, floral notes and subtle savoury spice.

2023 - 12% abv

ORGANIC

The Cazot Orange is made in the same way as a red wine, with 14 days' maceration in tank with the skin of the grapes. Made from a blend of grapes from the Roussillon area: 35% Grenache Blanc - 35% Grenache Gris - 25% Muscat d'Alexandrie - 5% Macabeu. The wine is bottled unfiltered and may have a natural, harmless deposit in the bottle.

Serodes & Kovac

Boris Kovac, of Ukranian descent on his father’s side, was born and raised in Serbia. His mother’s family owned a vineyard there and his father made wine. More significantly, his father became an esteemed enologist whose skills were much in demand in France by the early 1990s, specifically in Narbonne and Bordeaux.

Boris decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and studied chemistry and enology, specialising in the positive health properties of the tannins that are found in grape skins, both when consumed as wine but also when applied externally to the skin. His enological studies continued in Montpelier from 1993 to 1994 where he met the love of his life, Virginie. They were married in 1996 and continue to live in Rivesaltes, just a short drive from the Spanish border.

Boris began work as a winemaker around this time and was instrumental in a major project that looked to craft French wines in styles more commonly associated with New World countries with a view to exploring export markets such as Australia, with great success. He began his own project, Vallée des Aigles in 2003 and 5 years later finally purchased a small winery with 7 hectares of fantastic old vines in the commune of Latour de France in the Roussillon hills overlooking the Med, called Domaine de l’Agly.

Today, this is where Boris makes his own wines, and they could not be less New World in style if they tried. Instead, these wines embody the rich resources of old vine Carignan, Grenache, Cinsault, Mourvèdre et al, and speak volumes of the unique and special terroir here. Boris is in high demand as a winemaking consultant throughout the Languedoc-Roussillon.

Contains Sulphites