Description

The siliceous pebbly soil, overlaying tertiary sandstone (Bartonian) which is more fissured here than elsewhere, reveals, through its hot and filtering qualities, ideally suited to “its” grape variety, the difficult Cinsault.

The Cinsault was the source of the great Languedoc crus of the XVIII^th and IXX^th centuries.  It later fell out of favour because it was planted no matter where, but now, this grape variety with its very limited capacity to adapt has found here, in its prime, with its stocks with their powerful trunks and branches stretched out by successive pruning, the qualities that tradition once recognised in it and which made it stand out amongst many other grape varieties.

Destemmed, crushed, interminably macerated (eight weeks!) in open vats, with the marc cap trodden into the juice (‘pigé’) twenty to thirty times, at the end of this “obsessive” vatting it expresses all its fine pedigree.