Languedoc
Faugères Tradition - 2017 - Didier Barral
Domaine Léon Barral
A powerful Faugères, with notes of red and black fruits, and black olives... Palate: powerful, silky and luscious. An essential wine for every cellar! Wait for it if possible, it will only be better after 2/3 years.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Faugères
- Degree of alcohol
- 14.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
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Blended cuvée: 50% Carignan, 30% Grenache and 20% Cinsault, from 40-to-70-year- old vines. Schist soils. Didier’s green capital is entirely managed by his cows, the winegrower’s other great passion... No chemicals have touched his vines in 30 years. Domain certified organic and biodynamic. Grapes are harvested by hand in small crates. Yields around 30 hl/ha. Vinification: old vertical press, maceration for 3 to 4 weeks, maturation 2 years in barrels, with 10% new barrels. Micro-dose of sulphur at bottling.

Didier Barral
Didier Barral, natural vigneron, became the 13th generation of his family in 1990 to farm his family estate in the hamlet of Lenthéric in the Languedoc. From the beginning of his career he was sensitive to biodynamics and biodiversity in general. But his estate is vast – 35 hectares – so Didier had to find solutions to be able to naturally fertilise his soil, manage weeds and grasses, etc. So...
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