La Negra - 2022 - Laurence Manya Krief

A blend of 70% Carignan and 30% grenache from 85-year-old vines grown organically and co-planted on sandy-granite soils. Manual harvest on the 22nd of August 2022. Vinification: semi-carbonic maceration for 10 days, indigenous yeasts, soft pressing, the juices were moved into barrels two weeks after pressing. Matured in barrels that have seen 5 wines and in 400-litre oak demi muids. The barrels mostly come from Burgundy’s Fred Cossard. Unfined, unfiltered, just a micro-dose sulphur at bottling.