EVENTS

Vertical tasting

Every five years, we invite wine professionals to the property to review how our two grands vins,
Mas de Daumas Gassac Red and White, are evolving as they age.
All vintages that are considered suitable for tasting (not closed) are sampled by a jury.

The idea of the event is to observe and enhance our understanding of the evolution of our vintages,
thereby enabling us to offer the best possible advice to wine enthusiasts about when they should drink our wines.

2018
2014
2007
2005
2001

EXCEPTIONAL VERTICAL TASTING

Saturday 17 February 2018 : Tasting of 23 vintages of the Mas de Daumas Gassac White

The jury was made up of 22 tasters, 19 tasters invited with Samuel, Roman and Basile Guibert.

For each of the 23 vintages selected, 2 bottles were taken out of our underground cellars the day before the vertical tasting. They were then placed upright in a wine cellar at 4°C in anticipation of opening them the following day. The wine cellar was turned down to a minimum since the room temperature of the tasting area warms up by around 10°C in the space of 30 minutes. This allowed tasters to taste the white wines at the correct temperature by the end of the wine service. The 506 glasses – 23 per taster – were carefully washed and placed in the tasting room.

THE BIG DAY

10am – 11am: Opening and temperature control. The 46 bottles were opened, checked, then immediately resealed and placed back in the wine cellar.
1.45pm – 2pm: Service of the wines started once all of the tasters had taken their places, leaving the oldest vintages till last.
2pm – 4pm: Silent vertical tasting of the 23 vintages of the Mas de Daumas Gassac White.
4.30pm – 6pm: Round table and comments from each taster. General evaluation and choosing of their top 5

WATCH THE OPINION OF OUR GUESTS!

Bernard BURTSCHY

Permanent member of the Grand Jury Européen & Taste Spirit

Andrew JEFFORD

Autor & journalist at Decanter

Béatrice DELAMOTTE

Assistant chief editor
at RVF

Cathy SOUN

Journalist at Midi Libre, vice president of the Club de la Presse Occitanie

Dominique HUTIN

Journalist, columnist & oenologist

Sylvie TONNAIRE

Chief editor at Terre de Vins Magazine

Matssura TOSHIO

Journalist at Wands Magazine

Frédéric DURAND-BAZIN

Journalist & columnist
at the Figaro Vin

Mark O’NEILL

Importater in Spain & El Mundo journalist

Hervé LALAU

In Vino Véritas journalist & Les 5 du vin website co-founder

Franco ZILIANI

Journalist and bloger

Eric RIEWER

Journalist, expert wine consultant at FICOFI

Richard NEVILLE

Jancis Robinson

Rupert MILLAR

Journalist at The
Drinks Business

Philippe NUSSWITZ

Best sommelier of France 1986

Daniel ROCHE

Sommelier-conseil & president of the Club l’Épicuvin

André DOMINÉ

Journalist, writer & wine expert at Weinwisser Magazine

Yaïr TABOR

Member of the writing team at Le Rouge et le Blanc

EXCEPTIONAL VERTICAL TASTING

The 23 February 2014 : Vertical tasting of 30 Mas de Daumas Gassac red vintages

Every ten years we hold a vertical tasting of all the Mas Daumas Gassac vintages. The tasting shows how our vintages have evolved enabling us to understand them better and advise wine lovers world wide. This year, sixteen wine experts made up the jury. Please find below some of the most notable critics from eminent wine journalists in the wine world to communicate to your team and customers..