2025 Magnum Matassa ‘Olla’ Rouge Grenache, Grenache Gris & Macabeu, Roussillon, France

Tom Lubbe’s Matassa is one of the Roussillon’s benchmark natural estates, farming old vines at 450–650 m on clay and limestone. Olla Rouge co-ferments red and white grapes with about 12 days on the skins, then ages in concrete. It’s bottled unfined, unfiltered and with little or no sulfur. Expect a lively, high-acid red with bright red fruit and a hint of black tea, and it pours generously from a magnum.