Got the opportunity to talk Tom Lubbe tonight and it was so awesome! What a great dude and I really just wanted to give him his flowers. I am not in industry, I’m just a guy who got put onto natural wine a couple of years ago and I’m just a consumer who’s falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of all of this so it was just a cool experience!
He’s in CA rn (not sure for how long) but I was actually able to introduce myself to him a couple of days ago at a wine salon in LA and he remembered my fucking name! So sick!
Basically it was Matassa night at Night + Market in LA and I decided to splurge a bit and try some wines that I felt like I wouldn’t have the opportunity to try any time soon.
Genuinely love Matassa because IMO most cuvées are so easy to drink but bring you enough complexity/are interesting enough to make for a very rewarding loop of drinking because it simply tastes good and then you’re also taking a second to think about what you are tasting then you do it again and again.
I’m trying to convert more of my buddies into drinking wine, and Matassa has never failed me when I would share it with the homies.
ALSO – if u have an IG where u post bottle recs/reviews lmk! I love being put on to different producers and cuvées!
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Blossom 2021 – Muscat Petit Grains – still fairly young but definitely developed oxidative notes. Got some good honeyed notes to mesh with the citrus and yellow fruit that you would expect. Great wine to drink and chill with while I’m waiting to get seated lmao.
Marguerite 2018 – Muscat d’Alexandrie & Muscat petit grains and maybe something else?? Idk and I forgot to ask – Cuvée Marguerite is probably one of my favorite wines but this is the oldest vintage I’ve had and it definitely developed typical oxidative notes. When younger, cuvvee Marguerite to me is basically just mango/pineapple lemonade and the 2018 is a little less tropical, more honeyed and sugary. It’s honestly exactly what I expected, and was happy with what I got.
Southern Garden 2016 – Chenin Blanc, Muscat Petit Grains – I had to get this because I had never seen this cuvée! Tom said this was a one off cuvée because something about the people who he was working with for the Chenin, idk lmfao I forgot! This was the most honeyed/stewed of the 3 wines. Really felt how the Chenin was affecting this one. A good amount of pear and apple quickly followed the oxidative notes. Good amount of acid and citrus to lift me up at the back. Just a pleasant pleasant pleasant fuckin drink.