Le Petit Domaine de Gimios Muscat Sec des Roumaïs 2024

Anne-Marie Lavaysse founded Le Petit Domaine de Gimios in the 1990s on the high schist-and-limestone plateau above Saint-Jean-de-Minervois, about 320 m up. It's one of the Languedoc's natural-wine pioneers: roughly 5 hectares in sixteen small plots, some vines over a century old, farmed biodynamically as part of a full polyculture farm (cows, vegetable garden, fruit trees). Nothing is added in the cellar — not even sulfur. Her son Pierre now works alongside her.

Saint-Jean-de-Minervois is famous for sweet Muscat; this is the dry version, fermented fully dry. Floral and aromatic — rose and white flowers — with the freshness that altitude brings. A rare bottle from an estate that trained a generation of natural winemakers (including Julie Brosselin of Les Cigales).

• Region: Saint-Jean-de-Minervois, Languedoc
• Grape: Muscat à Petits Grains
• Farming: Biodynamic
• Winemaking: No additions of any kind, no added sulfur
• Style: Dry, aromatic white