Jeff Carrel Chatgris Wine Review

Natalie's Score: 93/100

Jeff Carrel Chatgris is a compelling, full-bodied orange wine from the Languedoc made entirely from ripe Grenache Gris sourced from schist terroirs near Maury and Corbières in the south of France, where the sun-baked Mediterranean landscape lends this extraordinary wine its rich, amber-tinged depth. The nose is complex and opulent, layering candied citrus rind, toasted walnut, dried apricot, warm spice, and a seductive wisp of coffee and woodsmoke, while the palate is supple and almost tactile in its texture, finishing with a bracing saline lift and a long, spiced, dried-fruit persistence. At 15% alcohol this is a wine of real weight and presence, best served lightly chilled and capable of ageing through 2030 and well beyond. Winemaker and oenologist Jeff Carrel, who trained in the Loire and Alsace before dedicating himself to revealing the best of Languedoc-Roussillon terroirs, ages this wine oxidatively for 18 to 40 months in old unfilled oak barrels in the tradition of the great dry Rancio wines of the region. Fascinatingly, Chatgris is blended across three consecutive vintages rather than being a single-year wine, giving it a depth and consistency that sets it apart from almost anything else in the world of orange wine.

Food pairings: aged hard cheese with fig jam and toasted walnuts, slow-roasted duck leg with a spiced orange glaze, Thai green curry with jasmine rice.

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This Jeff Carrel Chatgris was reviewed on April 28, 2026 by Natalie MacLean

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