France
Col du Loup - 2023 - Rouge Gorge
Cyril Fhal
A wine of incredible finesse, with an ultra-floral nose and a velvety palate... Decidedly one of the most beautiful wines produced at the estate, or in all of Roussillon for that matter. If you manage to lay this down for a few years, you will be well rewarded.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Wine without added sulfites
- Designation
- Vin de France
- Bottled by
- SAS Cyril Fhal
- Colour
- Red Wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2030 to 2040
- rock’n’roll
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100% Grenache from vines cultivated organically and planted on an East-facing slope with schist soils. The parcel was planted in 2014 only after the soil was painstaking prepared by Cyril over a period of... eight years (!!!). Needless to say, each vine is pampered individually, and harvested by hand. The vinification is natural and without additives: crushing of the whole clusters for infusion, soft pressing, end of fermentation and 15 months of aging in large Burgundy barrels. One additional year of aging in bottles, zero added sulfites.
Cyril Fhal
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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