Roussillon
A wine boasting a bouquet of wild aromatics, balanced by a great deal of freshness. On the palate: silky, well-blended tannins, with lovely length. It’s already good, but too young. You won’t have 50 chances to taste it, so best to put this in your cellar and be patient.
A blend of 85% Carignan, 90-year-old vines, complanted with Grenache, Macabeu, Grenache Blanc, Mourvèdre, unknown grape varieties, etc... The vines are planted on sands, over gneiss soils. Viticulture and vinification are straightforward and natural; infusion is practiced during vinification for greater delicacy. Vinification: fermentation and infusion in casks, the whole clusters are lightly crushed, soft pressing, about two years of aging in 500 liter wooden casks. Unfined, unfiltered, just a micro-dose of sulphur added at bottling.
Cyril Fhal launched his 5-hectare estate in 2002 in Latour-de-France, just 5 km from Calce, home to numerous renowned winemakers. The young Parisian, his viticulture/oenology diploma in hand, had been on the look out for parcels in the region when he stumbled upon these old vines – between 50 and 100 years old – which no one wanted to work, because they were planted on steep slopes unsuitable...
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