Terroir
• Schist or slate slopes surrounded by garrigue.
• Multiple expositions with strong influences from both the
Mediterranean Sea and the Pyreneés mountain ranges.
• Varieties: Syrah 50%, and Mourvedre 50% .
Viticulture
• Fully organic (Ecocert Certified) using biodynamic techniques.
Thus no herbicides, pesticides or systemic chemicals used in
production of this wine.
• Yield: 15hl/ha, 3 tons per hectare
• Hand harvested in early morning into small 12kg cases. Hand
selection of berries when necessary.
Winemaking
• After triage the grapes are de-stemmed and then transferred by hand into tank.
• Fermented with indigenous yeasts, with only gentle foot-treading of grapes.
• Malolactic fermentation completed in French oak, 228 and 500 litre vessels.
• 14 months aging in barrel with light filtration and no fining.
• A low sulphur wine (14 mg/litre free) that has been bottled on a good moon.
• Analysis: Alcohol by volume 13%; Volatile Acidi ty 0.57 g/l; Titratable Acidity 6.8
g/l; pH 3.35; Malic Acid 0.29 g/l
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