- BrandDomaine des Masques
- CountryFrance
- TypeWhite Wine
- Size750ml
- SKU 210000035633
Le Dm Des Masques Viognier 2018 750ml
The vineyards of Le Domaine des Masques stand-alone, totemic, far from the madding crowds, singled out from the rest of Provence. Perched aloft the Plateau du Cengle, at the base of the iconic Montagne Sainte-Victoire, sits this near-mystical farm, at times bathed in cloudless light, at times in a sublime fog. It’s this tension, this mercurial dynamism, that leaves its stamp on these lofty wines.
Montagne Sainte-Victoire is a deeply magical place in the French imagination. I remember studying Paul Cézanne in my art history class and learning how in his late years he moved home to Aix-en-Provence, just 15km west of this storied summit, and became obsessed with it. He painted it over and over again for the rest of his life. It is a bewitching mountain. It’s no wonder, France declared the area a Natura 2000 preserve and a Grand site de France.