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Mas Pagés

A 2018 Vacquières estate from fifth-generation grower Pierre Pagès, making organically cultivated Languedoc, Pays d’Oc and Pic Saint Loup wines.

The producer

Pierre Pagès created Mas Pagés in 2018 at Hameau de Figuier in Vacquières. Son of Gilles and Sylvie Pagès of Mas de Figuier, he works 12 organically cultivated hectares and follows the AB Ecocert organic charter. The range includes Languedoc, IGP Pays d’Oc and Pic Saint Loup wines, linking a new estate name to long local winegrowing roots.

André 2024 is the clearest bottle: a red Pic Saint Loup blend of Grenache and Syrah. Blackberry and wild raspberry meet violet, rosemary, black pepper and liquorice; dry fruit, acidity and firm grip carry the flavours through the finish. Grenache brings red-fruit lift, while Syrah deepens the berry fruit and spice.

Known for

Organic Grenache-Syrah red from Pic Saint Loup

Notable facts

The story

Why the André cuvée has a family name

Pierre Pagès created Mas Pagés in 2018 after an opportunity arose to acquire 12 hectares around Vacquières. He came to the project as the son of Gilles and Sylvie Pagès of Mas de Figuier and as a fifth-generation winegrower in Pic Saint Loup, but Mas Pagés was established under his own name. For André, the Pic Saint Loup red made from Grenache and Syrah, Pierre chose his grandfather’s first name for the cuvée. The result is a family name on a bottle from a new estate: André appears alongside the dark berry fruit, violet, rosemary, pepper and liquorice documented in the wine.

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Mas Pagés

At A Glance

Mas Pagés is Pierre Pagès’s 2018 estate at Hameau de Figuier in Vacquières, in the Pic Saint Loup area of Languedoc-Roussillon. Its 12 hectares are cultivated organically, and the estate says its vines and wines follow the AB Ecocert organic charter; that farming commitment frames a range that includes Languedoc, IGP Pays d’Oc and Pic-Saint-Loup wines.

The bottle to know is André, a red Pic Saint Loup made from Grenache and Syrah. Its dark berries, wild raspberry, violet, rosemary, black pepper and liquorice make a concrete introduction to the estate’s fruit-led, fresh red style.

The Producer

Pierre Pagès created Mas Pagés in 2018, bringing a separate estate name to a family rooted in Vacquières. He is the son of Gilles and Sylvie Pagès of Mas de Figuier, and is described as a fifth-generation winegrower in Pic Saint Loup; André, his Grenache-Syrah red, carries that local family thread into a bottle under his own name.

The estate is based at Hameau de Figuier, a hamlet in Vacquières. That address matters on the label because Pic Saint Loup is one of the designations under which Mas Pagés works, while the producer also makes wines under the wider Languedoc and IGP Pays d’Oc names.

Place

Vacquières sits within the Pic Saint Loup wine area, and Mas Pagés uses the place name in more than one way. A wine labelled Pic Saint Loup, such as André, identifies a red made within that appellation; Languedoc and IGP Pays d’Oc on other bottles signal that the range also reaches beyond this single designation.

For André 2024, the place is paired with Grenache and Syrah rather than treated as decoration. Grenache brings red-fruit character into the blend, while Syrah supports the darker blackberry fruit, pepper and liquorice noted in the wine; together they give the Pic Saint Loup label a flavourful, structured red-wine expression.

Soil And Site

The documented holding is 12 hectares around Vacquières, cultivated organically. No parcel-by-parcel soils, slopes or exposures are established here, so André is better understood through its confirmed place, grapes and farming than through an invented geological formula; the result is a red whose berry fruit, herbs and spice can be described without pretending to know more about the ground than the evidence allows.

Story

Mas Pagés began when Pierre Pagès had the opportunity to acquire 12 hectares around Vacquières and started his own project in 2018. The move did not sever the family connection: Pierre came from Mas de Figuier and brought five generations of Pic Saint Loup winegrowing into a new estate, with André providing a named Pic Saint Loup red through which that new chapter can be tasted.

The estate’s stated organic AB Ecocert approach gives the story a practical vineyard dimension. Rather than presenting family history as a label ornament, Mas Pagés links a new name, organically cultivated vines and a Grenache-Syrah bottling from its home appellation.

Vineyards And Cellar

Mas Pagés cultivates its 12 hectares organically, and the estate says both vines and wines are handled under the AB Ecocert charter. That is the confirmed working method behind André and the broader range, so the relevant consequence in the glass is not a claim of a particular soil character but a wine shaped from organically cultivated fruit.

Cellar detail for André 2021 is not settled: one account reports barrel ageing while another reports stainless-steel tank. The useful certainty lies in the wine itself: Grenache and Syrah make a red with documented fruit, acidity and structure, while the differing cellar accounts should not be turned into a false claim of oak flavour or tank-driven freshness.

Wines

The confirmed range spans Languedoc, IGP Pays d’Oc and Pic-Saint-Loup wines. These names describe different designation contexts rather than a documented ladder of cuvées: the range reaches from a broad regional label to the more specific Pic Saint Loup name, with André the clearly identified red at the latter level.

André 2024 is a red Pic Saint Loup of Grenache and Syrah. It brings blackberry and wild raspberry fruit into contact with violet, rosemary, black pepper and liquorice, so its architecture is more than a list of grapes: red and dark fruit sit over floral lift, herbal spice and a firm structural frame.

In The Glass

André opens on blackberry and wild raspberry, with violet adding a floral note before rosemary and black pepper take the aroma toward the garrigue-like, savoury side. Grenache accounts for the red-fruit ease in the blend, while Syrah supports the darker fruit and peppery detail.

On the palate, the wine is dry, fruit-forward and structured, with acidity keeping the berry fruit moving rather than heavy. Mineral notes and liquorice add darker tones through the middle, while pepper and herbs carry into a fresh finish with grip; that balance of fruit, acidity and structure is the clearest sensory thread across the available descriptions.

A Bottle To Understand It

Start with Mas Pagés André 2024. It is a red Pic Saint Loup made from Grenache and Syrah, so it puts the estate’s Vacquières base, organic cultivation and most clearly documented appellation-grape partnership into one glass. Expect blackberry and wild raspberry, violet, rosemary, black pepper and liquorice, with dry fruit, active acidity and a structured finish. It comes first because it is the named bottle that most directly joins Pierre Pagès’s new estate to the place where he works.

Anecdote

In 2018, Pierre Pagès created Mas Pagés after the opportunity arose to acquire 12 hectares around Vacquières. He was already part of a local winegrowing family: his parents, Gilles and Sylvie Pagès, are associated with Mas de Figuier, and Pierre is described as a fifth-generation grower in Pic Saint Loup. When he made André, one of the clearly documented wines of the new estate, he named the cuvée for his grandfather. The name therefore sits on a red Pic Saint Loup bottle made from Grenache and Syrah: a grandfather’s first name carried by a wine from Pierre’s own 2018 project.

Final Word

Mas Pagés is a young estate with deep local roots: Pierre Pagès’s 2018 project in Vacquières, 12 organically cultivated hectares and a Pic Saint Loup red that turns Grenache and Syrah into blackberry fruit, herbs, pepper, acidity and grip. André is the bottle that makes those facts tangible.

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