Domaine Matassa
Brutal Orange 2022
Fun fact: This wine is (rightfully) in Vivino’s Top 2% of wines in the entire world, making it one of natural wine’s most-coveted bottles. This is as orange as orange gets: a kiss of tannin from a month of maceration heralds a medium body and palate chock-full of tangy stone fruits, citrus, and tea, evolving with spice. To taste is to believe!
Grape Variety: Macabeo
Region: Rousillon, France
Tastes like: Apricots, peach tea, orange peel, warm spices
Best with: Pad Thai, katsu curry, Vietnamese lemongrass chicken
Size: 750 ml
Alc Content: 11.5%
made in france by
Domaine Matassa
Matassa is the natural wine estate of Tom Lubbe, who is based in Roussillon, at the Southern tip of France close to Spain.
a closer look
Behind the Bottle
Matassa is one of the most in-demand wineries in the natural wine scene, which stems largely from their approachable drinkability and high quality expressions of local grapes in their vineyards such as Carignan, Macabeo, Zibibbo and Grenache. Tom Lubbe has gained an army of followers around the world. His wines are age worthy and vary between experimental, as well as classic.