Product specifications

 

Planting : 1999

Terroir :  Clay limestone red soils. Small parcel, around 1 ha, full sun.

Viticulture : For more than 20 years, we cultivate and treat our vines with organic methods. Herbs are deeply buried via mecanical work. The terroir keeps then all its natural richness.

Prunning : Guyot short

harvest : Manual thinning. Mechanical harvesting. To take benefits from the night cooling, harvesting is acheive at 4 am.

Vinification : The harvest is destemmed and then submitted to a short maceration (few days). The alcoholic fermentation last around 20 days in stainless steel tanks under controlled temperature.

Embottling : This wine is not filtered. A deposit can be formed with time. The embottling is made by gravitation process.

Production : Medium, around 40Hl/ha.

Variety history : This grape variety come from Catalogna. It’s a cousin of black grenache. It is nowadays considered as a rare variety (few hundreds of hectares). It was brought in Languedoc in Middle age by pilgrims from Compostela.