Tom Lubbe's Matassa winery stands for purist natural wines from Languedoc-Roussillon
Tom Lubbe, the wine rebel from New Zealand, dreamed early on of a viticulture that puts nature at the centre. But it was only in the Mediterranean Languedoc-Roussillon that he found the perfect place to realise his revolutionary vision. After years as cellar master with legend Gerard Gauby, he acquired a spectacular plot of wild, unpruned vineyard with ancient Carignan vines in 2003 - and the Matassa winery was born. Together with his wife Nathalie and friend Sam Harrop, the Matassa vineyard is now one of the most progressive wineries in the south of France, and probably the world.