NOT DRINKING POISON

NOT DRINKING POISON

Salinity Now! In the Salt Flats with Mas Mellet

Emilie and Brice Bolognini are making masterful whites and rosés from the ancient salt flats of the Costières de Nîmes.

Aaron Ayscough
Sep 04, 2021
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Carigian vines beside the Mas Mellet winery, January 2020.

Like Alain Allier and Nicolas Renaud before him, organic Costières de Nîmes vigneron Brice Bolognini’s natural wine epiphany came thanks to a glass of wine from Eric Pfifferling - specifically a pétillant-naturel tasted at the Feria de Nîmes in 2006. The two met the same evening, but it was only …

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