2017 Mas de Daumas Gassac - Rouge 6,0 l - Methusalem - Vin de Pays de l'Herault

Decanter.com – 93 pts – AJ: *There's a little bit of reduction showing on this barrel sample, but also lots of classic blackcurrant and red plum fruit. The quality of fruit revealed on the palate is very exciting, fresh and precise, with dramatic density. It has a little less overt floral charm than the youthful 2016, but more of the light herbal bitterness in the finish which chiefly constitutes this wine’s Languedoc character. Potentially a fine wine in the classic, long-lasting mould of 2010.* - 04/2018

JancisRobinson.com – 18/20pts – TC: *The perfume on this wine, beautiful to begin with, became more and more and more hauntingly lovely as it sat in the glass. I left it and just kept coming back, and every time there was something else there. Lovage, roses, the smell of the most delicious deeply composty loamy soil damp with light rain, lavender. It rose out of the glass in a slow, languid cloud. It took me ages to taste it and when I did, it was ripe damsons, tobacco leaf, dried cranberries, rose petals, a touch of hot-summer-dry garrigue. The fruit was lustrous, almost pearlescent, reverberating gently, held lightly in exquisitely fine but strong tannins. Silk and dust. This is a wine that plumbs the depths of flavour and timbre. Exhilarating yet quiet, intense yet unshowy, effortlessly elegant. One of the most beautiful Languedoc wines I have tasted. And still so young … this has years ahead of it.* - 07/2020

Vinous.com - 94pts - AG: *The 2017 Rouge is fabulous. Black cherry, cedar, leather, tobacco, dark spice and game are front and center in this potent Languedoc red. Ample and powerful, with a bit more breadth than usual, the 2017 has so much to offer. I would give the 2017 a few more years in bottle, even though it is incredibly expressive today. The rich, substantial finish is a thing of beauty.* - 10.2020