Château Maris Wines from the Cordier Portfolio

Please join Marty Cook, PWS President, and our guest Gregg Mutschler, Director of National Distribution for Cordier USA on Sunday, February 13, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, to enjoy wines from the Languedoc region of France.   Cordier USA is the U.S based importer of global wine producer Cordier by Invivo.  Cordier USA’s core business is sustainable and family-owned French vineyards.  Their vertically integrated global wine sourcing, as well as sales and marketing expertise, provide unique “Vineyard to Market” wine solutions.  The close relationships they maintain with their producers, distributors, retailers and consumers allows Cordier USA to offer the finest products, in line with customer expectations.

Cordier’s portfolio producer chosen for this event is Château Maris.  Perhaps the world’s greenest wine project, Château Maris is located in the heart of the Languedoc, where the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees mountains come together.  Nestled in the foothills of the Black Mountains, Maris is a Certified Biodyvin, Demeter, Biodynamic 120-acre estate that uses only native yeast, bottles without fining or filtering, and plows with Percheron horses.  It has built the world’s first and only hemp cellar: a sustainable, recyclable, plant-based building; completely biodegradable, self-sufficient in energy, and carbon negative.

Maris’ winemaker and owner, Robert Eden is the nephew of former UK Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, and a direct descendant of Lord Baltimore. He started his career rather early by getting expelled from school for illegally brewing beer in his dorm.   Because (or, thanks to) this, his father shipped him off to Australia where he found himself at the age of 17 pruning vines in the Barossa. After a stint in Tuscany and many years working with Becky Wasserman in Burgundy, he purchased Château Maris in 1998.   Robert is a recognized authority on Organic and Biodynamic viticulture, giving lectures on the need to reduce the negative impact on the environment from non-sustainable farming.  He was one of three winemakers invited to participate to the COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015.  Wine Enthusiast reported, “There are organic, sustainable and environmentally minded winemakers, and then there’s Robert Eden.  No one in France can compete.”  

Every label bearing Maris’ name is Certified Organic at a minimum, low sulfites (under 100 ppm), chemical free, and has no additives.  Maris is also the first and only B-Corp Certified European winery, one of the most rigorous sustainability and social responsibility certifications in the world.  Maris is a philosophy come to life with straightforward preparations yielding complex wines. The vineyard areas are alluvial soils – a mix of schist, sandstone, quartz and limestone.  This makes for a varied terroir that allows each grape to best express itself.  The winemaking uses all-indigenous yeasts and concrete tanks are often used for fermentation.  Robert Eden’s wines have been described as “a testament to the practices of letting the land speak through the vines, and letting the grapes express the land”. 

Featured wines for our event include an elegant, mouth filling Vermentino; a Syrah-Grenache-Mourvèdre blend with delicious, supple, bright red-fruit flavors; and a full-bodied Syrah-Grenache blend showcasing silky tannins and savory dark fruit.   We look forward to hearing more about and tasting these wines with you!

Wine Ordering:  Order early to receive your wines prior to the event.  (Also consider this week’s temperatures are forecast to be milder for shipping.)  You may order and ship wines through Wine.com.  Links to each of the specific wines’ pages on the Wine.com website follow below.  Click a link, place the wine in your cart, and continue with the next wine.   I completed my order in less than 10 minutes.   If you’re new to Wine.com, some first-time discounts are often offered, so be sure to take advantage of those.

Here are the links to each wine on Wine.com:

https://www.wine.com/product/chateau-maris-la-touge-2018/757090

https://www.wine.com/product/chateau-maris-vermentino-2019/638651

https://www.wine.com/product/chateau-maris-zulu-2019/707665

How to join us:   No reservation needed.   Simply grab your wines and join us via the Zoom link below close to 3:30 p.m. Eastern/New York time on Sunday, February 13; sit back and enjoy!

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