Description

Oca demonstrates once again the incredible quality of these old Maccabeu wines. “Madly energetic, this wine of great salinity perfectly combines bitterness and a sharp profile, with great precision and length

Seen on the land registry, this 60 year old vineyard planted with macabeu on schist soils covered with a vein of red clay, is shaped like a goose, “l’Oca” in Catalan.

Majorie Gallet purchased her small domaine in 2001 at the ripe old age of 23. She renamed the estate Roc des Anges (angel’s rock) in honor of the white, quartz-veined soil. The farm is about 18 miles from the vibrant, French-Catalan city of Perpignan on the southwest coast of France.

Ms. Gallet grew up near Côte Rôtie in the Northern Rhône, doing apprenticeships with Yves Cuilleron and Pierre Gaillard, and studied eonology in Montpellier before setting off on her own. She farms roughly 50 acres of vineyards spread out over 43 different parcels in this dry, stony landscape. All the farming is organic.