Vin Mousseux: Domaine Matray Perle Rouge Sparkling Red

Product Type: Wine - Red, Sparkling

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With its small frothy bubbles, this is a true celebration wine. It is seductively fresh and refined with a real personality. A lip-smacking, moreish nectar when served cool at 8-10°C, it is perfect as an aperitif or with chocolaty desserts.

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Tasting Notes

With its small frothy bubbles, this is a true celebration wine. It is seductively fresh and refined with a real personality.

A lip-smacking, moreish nectar when served cool at 8-10°C, it is perfect as an aperitif or with chocolaty desserts.

Wine Information

Vintage	N/V
Region	Beaujolais
Appellation	Vin Mousseux
Style	Red, Sparkling
Producer	Domaine Matray
Grapes	100% Gamay
Pairing	Aperitif
Keeping	Drink within 2 to 3 years.
Vinification	Méthode traditionnelle (sparkling wine made using the traditional method).
Bottle	75cl
Volume	12.5%

Region and Appellation Information

Region – Beaujolais

Offering a deep ruby red, Beaujolais is more than just a wine; it's an agricultural region that produces as many as 2.3 billion bottles of red wine per year. This French wine is renowned for its fruity taste and robust structure and has been popular since the 19th century. Beaujolais wines are also rich in pigments of carotenoids which give the wines their characteristic dark purple hue. The wine is typically made from the Gamay grape which is one of the darkest of red grapes.

Appellation – Vin Mousseux

Vin Mousseux is the French term for fully sparkling wine, covering any sparkling wine made outside the strict rules of named appellations like Champagne or Crémant. It can be produced by various methods, from the traditional bottle fermentation to the cheaper tank (Charmat) method, and from grapes grown anywhere in France. Because it isn't tied to a specific region or production standard, it offers producers considerable flexibility.

Domaine Matray

From a winemaking family spanning 5 generations, Lilian Matray, his wife Sandrine and his daughter Célia work the family estate.

The estate buildings are in Juliénas, a charming little Beaujolais village, while the estate’s vines grow on 11 hectares of slopes that are not only in the Juliénas appellation area. The variety of the soils give the very typical, fruity Beaujolais aromas and flavours of each specific appellation.