Mas Amiel

A pure ‘pleasure wine’, brimming with exotic, opulent notes of mango, baked pear, summer blossom and overripe peach. Luscious honey and caramel flavours from six years‘ bottle age add to its delicious complexity.

Enjoy it as an aperitif, post-prandial treat, or with fruit-based desserts.

Muscat de Rivesaltes is an appellation for vins doux naturels (sweet, fortified wines) in France's Roussillon region. It is the largest single sweet-wine appellation in France (along with Rivesaltes, which covers the same area).

The wines are made from Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains and Muscat d'Alexandrie, in varying proportions, by a technique known as mutage, a process of arresting fermentation by the addition of grape spirit while unfermented grape sugars remain. The result is a sweet wine with relatively high alcohol: a delicious digestive.

Attractive red-mocha hue with an intense bouquet of dark chocolate, baked fig and peppermint. Bold, powerful palate showcasing striking freshness, tender

90% Grenache, 5% Maccabeu, 5% Carignan

This attractive and unusual dessert wine is made from pure Grenache gris, and has a complex bouquet with distinct aromas of orange flower, mandarin zest and grapefruit. On the palate it's clean, bright and minerally—chilled, it would certainly surprise and delight as an aperitif or with foie gras, tuna sashimi or creme brûlée.

Maury is an appellation in the Pyrenees foothills specialising in vins doux naturels (fortified, sweet wine), produced mostly from the various varieties of the Grenache grape: noir, blanc and the under-utilized gris. The area also also makes quirky dry reds and whites under the IGP Côtes Catalanes or the appellations Côtes du Roussillon and Côtes du Roussillon Villages.

As with the winery's Muscat, a process called mutage delivers the potent sweetness of the style. Fermentation of the wine is stopped by the addition of grape spirit, raising the degree of alcohol and retaining a proportion of the natural fruit sugars.

Being left outside for a year doesn't improve every wine—but the fresh air turns the juice of fine hand-picked fruit into something really marvellous on the Maury estate of Mas Amiel.

After oxidizing in glass demijohns, the blend of red Grenache, Maccabeu and Carignan is aged in oak barrels to complete its transformation into a truly luxurious dessert wine, released for sale at twenty years old.

Despite the lengthy maturation process and the rich amber colour of the finished wine, there is a delicious vivacity about its aromas and flavours that impresses the senses with the quality of the original fresh fruit, even while the spices, liquorice and concentrated dried fruit character of this exquisite antique weave their charm.