As with its young elder brother, the C de Centeilles Rouge, it took a long time to carve out a parcel on Centeilles, let the land rest, do a crop rotation to re-balance the soil,\u00a0 seek, find and multiply the old grape varieties (Araignan Blanc, Riveyrenc Blanc and Gris) and then, of course, to plant and train the vine in a \u201clyre shape\u201d.<\/p>\n
Our desire was to succeed in making a complex wine with great freshness in the Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n
And so, during the spring before we first harvested our white grapes, we went off to meet some winemaker friends at Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape to benefit from their experience.<\/p>\n
Walking through their wines, listening to and understanding their choice of grape varieties, learning the signs that determine the date of the harvests \u2026 Besides, didn\u2019t they say to us, with one voice, that white wine vinification was much easier than that of red?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Comme pour son jeune fr\u00e8re ain\u00e9, le C de Centeilles rouge, le cheminement a \u00e9t\u00e9 long : le temps d’arracher une parcelle sur Centeilles, laisser reposer la terre, faire une rotation de culture pour r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrer le sol, rechercher, retrouver et multiplier les anciens c\u00e9pages (Araignan Blanc, Riveirenc Blanc et Gris) et puis, bien s\u00fbr, planter et conduire la vigne \u00aben lyre\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[50],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4830","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-vins-blancs","7":"first","8":"instock","9":"taxable","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/product\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/closcenteilles.com\/nov-apijson\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}