La Voluta Karaka2022
Voluta
Languedoc, France
About this wine
Anna Rubio and Jean-Benoît Vivequain met in New Zealand learning winemaking and now run La Voluta on 6.5 hectares of organic-farmed vines in Cucugnan, in the Hautes Corbières under the ruins of Quéribus Castle. The cellar is uncompromising: each cuvée is made only once and never repeated, hand-harvested grapes are whole-cluster fermented for short macerations of 3 to 5 days, native yeasts only, and no sulphites are added at any stage. Karaka is the cellar's Grenache bottling. The 14% alcohol on the 2022 release is in line with what old Grenache vines deliver in the Hautes Corbières limestone hills; expect a dark-fruited, savoury, peppery Grenache with the Voluta cellar's signature lift rather than weight.
Winemaking
Hand harvest. Whole-cluster fermentation, short maceration of 3 to 5 days. Native-yeast fermentation only. No added sulphur at any stage. La Voluta's house principle: each cuvée made once, never repeated.