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Red : We grow five grape varieties for red wines : Syrah, Mourvèdre, Grenache, Merlot and Carignan. The vines vary from 6 – 30 years old, and I select the grapes very carefully depending on the character of each wine : their age and exactly where they grow really does make a difference !
We prune very hard and use no fertilizer which means not only that the goodness is well concentrated in top quality grapes, but also that our yields are very low, varying between 23 and 30 hectolitres per hectare. |
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White : Our white wine grapes are rather special. I’m one of the very few people in the Languedoc to think Chenin grapes (originally from the Loire) enjoy the Midi sunshine and thank us for bringing them to the warm south by making glorious wine. These grapes are quite young – fourteen years old, and are a perfect foil for the other variety, Vermentino or Rolle, which are even younger – about nine. The average yield from these is also very low : about 25 hectolitres per hectare. |
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