Guru 2023 Magnum Domaine Coquelicot Bottled in black wax-sealed glass

Bottled in black wax-sealed glass

orange peel and a firm chalky tannin

Pigalle 2021 is a pure Malbec from the Bordeaux hinterland — the grape’s ancestral home before Argentinian sunshine made it globally famous

red berry fruit with a herbal edge and a faint chalky grip

and there is nothing at all wrong with straightforward

Guru 2023 Magnum Domaine Coquelicot Bottled in black wax-sealed glassAlain Castex and Ghislaine Magnier started Casot des Mailloles at Banyuls sur Mer in 1994 and spent two decades on steep terraced plots there, working old vines by hand and without chemicals. What came out was pale, low in alcohol and quietly radical, and it became the reference point for a generation of growers across the Pyrnes Orientales. Laurent Roger of Mataburro was one of the people who learned alongside him. So Guru is not really a Mataburro