Mas de Daumas Gassac White

Tasting hints

MAS DAUMAS GASSAC WHITE

Serve between 11°C and 12°C. Do not over chill.

You can also decant our great white wines.

Open the bottle an hour before serving, but always replace the cork.

Decanting always encourages wines to express their full complexity.

But, as with a bottle, if you’re decanting the wine, always replace the stopper.

If you particularly enjoy fruity aromas and fresh wine, drink it within one and three years.

If you enjoy the subtle taste of good white dry sherry, then lay down your Daumas Gassac whites for at least five years - even ten! The mysterious tertiary characteristics are quite amazing.

Food & Wine

Enjoy your Daumas Gassac White with :

Cream of asparagus

With asparagus tips or wild asparagus cooked at the last minute and added to the cream soup.

Asparagus in sauce

With fluffy vinaigrette type sauces prepared with olive oil.

Asparagus in all its forms

In soufflés, tarts, cold terrine with coriander…

Red peppers à la Languedocienne.

Leeks and scallop salad.

Scallops with saffron cream sauce.

Creamy mussels with saffron or fresh chives.

Smoked eel.

Fresh salmon in pastry on a bed of wild fennel.

This dish is best accompanied by diced green, red and yellow pepper and stir-fried with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and a touch of sugar to taste.

Grilled swordfish steaks

At the last minute drizzle with olive oil with a touch of sea salt and fresh basil. This dish is best accompanied by diced green, red and yellow pepper and stir-fried with a touch of olive oil, salt and a touch of sugar to taste.

Roast pork with ginger and pears caramelised with vinegar,

Veal (roast or small cuts) prepared with citrus peel

Veal Blanquette.

Roast pigeons.

Chicken or capon with sauce.

Green salad with truffles.

Scrambled eggs

With truffles, mushrooms, asparagus, chives …

Cheese

The white wine is superb with all goats’ or sheep milk cheese, Roquefort or Stilton too, but also certain cows’ milk cheeses such as old Cantal and Salers and mature Cheddar.

Gratin of pears with cassis.

Orange based sweets.

Certain chocolate cakes.

Apricot tart .

NB:

The white wine is also delicious with all sorts of fresh, Italian style, pasta.

Hints for laying down

When to enjoy Daumas Gassac white vintages

Important: our whites have two distinct incarnations.

Don’t muddle them ! Be aware when choosing which one to drink so as not to be disappointed !

The two lives of Daumas Gassac white wines

First Life – Wonderfully fresh and fruity. The early years

Unlike our red wines which are dominated by a single grape variety - (uncloned) Cabernet Sauvignon - our white wines spring from an infinitely complex blend. Four main grape varieties : Viognier, Chardonnay, Petit Manseng and Chenin, make up 90% of the wine. The other varieties : an intriguingly subtle blend including petit Courbu du Béarn, petite Arvine from the Valais, Rhole from Provence, Marsanne from the Rhône, anything up to ten other splendid European varieties.

The result ? A truly Grand Cru that is incredibly pure and fresh, bursting with fruit, yet delightfully smooth almost voluptuous. Our white wines are equally delicious drunk as an aperitif as with a meal, in fact they drink beautifully with almost all dishes.

Second Life – A metamorphosis between 3 and 6 years !

The fruitiness fades and the feshness disappears. New and quite different flavours come through, evolving into something reminiscent of sherry or old Sauternes, a touch “oxidative” with great finesse. You’ll either love it or you won’t ! If you aren’t looking for this type of somehow paradoxical wine, keep an eye on it and drink it during its first couple of years.

To sum up

If you like your wine fresh and fruity, drink the Daumas Gassac whites between one and three years old.

If you enjoy the subtle taste of an old dry sherry, then lay down your Daumas Gassac Whites for five years - even ten!

The mysterious tertiary characteristics are quite amazing.

We suggest decanting our great white wines. Take care not to over chill them.