Mas Champart AOC Saint Chinian

Bettane & Desseauve, Grand guide des vins de France 2011 :
« Isabelle et Mathieu Champart ont créé leur domaine de toutes pièces en 1976. Cette Parisienne et ce Champenois ont sorti de la coopération leurs beaux terroirs au sud de Saint-Chinian. Le domaine offre une version épurée de l’appellation, avec des vins tendus et très précis, peu démonstratifs en vins jeunes, contrairement aux terroirs de schistes. Le blanc très frais n’est pas en reste par rapport aux autres couleurs. »

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate :
« Isabelle and Mathieu Champart undertook their first vinification 20 years ago (after selling for more than a decade to a coop to which they continue to deliver some of their fruit), and today they bottle some of the most nuanced, pure, and delicious "vins du Languedoc". Claude Gros has been consulting here, and when one considers not only how dramatically different these wines are from those with which Gros is most frequently associated at La Negly and Clos des Truffiers, but also the entire range of estates with which he consults (a dozen of which are profiled in my current report), it is a tribute to this oenologist and proof of his claim to be a facilitator of his clients’imaginations, not an imposer of style or peddler of any particular techniques. The Champarts’often steep chalk-clay hillsides that favor Mourvedre and their nearly thousand foot-high rocky plateau with its walled-in Syrah and Carignan conduce to blends of unusually elegant interplay between fruit, animal, and mineral elements. »