Mas de Daumas Gassac

We had a pair of red and white wines from Mas de Daumas Gassac at the Sunday brunch after the KCCWS AGM the other day. This is a pioneering winery in the Languedoc region of France, built in the 1970s with its first vintage of red in 1978. The first white wine was made in 1986. Although there are many indigenous varieties in the vineyard, the cepage of their wines is dominated by international varieties and is usually blended in novel ways, so that the wines fail to conform to the established rules of the AC system. As a result the wines were given the lowest legal category, though their quality has been recognized from the mid 1980s.