- Fresh altitude terroir on sandstone bedrock, the plot “Les Gravettes” is dotted with small “graves” suitable for white wine.
- 100% Sauvignon
- IGP Haute Vallée de l’Aude
- Vine plantation : 2007
- Density foot / ha: 4500
- Vines worked with our three draft horses: Rustica, Colette and Carolus
- Harvest by hand in small 34 l perforated boxes and cooling of the harvest by dry ice
- Natural fermentation in indigenous yeasts of the plot with production of a “pied de cuve” (starter yeast culture)
- Aging for 6 months, 25% in French oak barrels (including 10% new oak) and 75% in stainless steel tanks.
- Sulphite content: 100mg / l (maximum standard in organic farming 150mg / l, 200mg / l in conventional)
- 13.5% alcohol
- Lemon buttered wine with notes of pear and citrus on the palate
- To taste with roasted scallops, semi-cooked tuna or chicken curry
- Terroir fresh from altitude on mother rock of sandstone sometimes outcropping, plots bordered by large hundred-year-old white oaks.
- Blend of Mauzac (75%) and Chardonnay (25%)
- Vines plantation in 2002 for Mauzac and 2014 for Chardonnay
- Density foot / ha: 4500 for Mauzac
- Density foot / ha: 4545 for Chardonnay
- Vines worked with our three draft horses: Rustica, Colette and Carolus
- Harvest by hand in small 34 l perforated boxes and cooling of the harvest by dry ice
- Direct pressing and natural fermentation in stainless steel tank with indigenous yeasts (with the creation of a preliminary vat for each plot).
- Separate vinification of Mauzac and Chardonnay then blending.
- Aging for 6 months in stainless steel tanks.