Cuvée du Loup

Climate:

After a rainy winter, to fill water reserves in the soil, the spring was dry

and summer  was  very  dry. The  harvest  was  very  good quality although some grapes have suffered from the drought. The quantity of the harvest is 10% less than the previous vintage.

Soil:

A complex soil with clay and sandstone coloured deep red by the iron oxide, refreshed by the salt air of the Mediterranean Sea. The soil is very well drained which improves the grapes quality.

Grapes varieties:

Syrah 50%, Grenache 30%, Cabernet 20%. We take only 30 hectolitres per hectare.

Harvest:

We wait that the grapes reach their maturity, and then we make the harvest by hand. We also have a cooling machine to refresh the grapes arriving in the cellar when outside temperature is too hot to conserve all the qualities of the wine.

Vinification:

The grapes are in tanks in order to macerate during 4 weeks to 5 weeks. Then they are pressed next clarified and fermented. The temperature is controlled at all the different stages. (Around 18°C). All grapes are vinified separately to conserve all their characteristics and flavours.

The wine obtained is growing in small oak barrels (220litres) during 11 months.

A third of the oaks barrels are new each year, one third are contained in a one year old oak barrel and the last third is contained in a two years old oak barrel.

Tasting:

Generous, with red fruits and black fruits, supple and fresh, will be in harmony with roasted meat, leg of lamb. It is a complex wine that you can keep around 10 years.