Description
This wine is made from Syrah , with a small amount of Viognier and Roussanne co-fermented to add flavor and finely textured tannin. It is a blend of three blocks of vines, the main vineyard being “Block 1”, which is very stony. The hand-harvested grapes are carefully sorted and crushed in small open fermentation vats. The must underwent a cold maceration for a few days before being inoculated with a mixture of national and imported yeasts from the Rhône . About 10% of the wine was fermented in whole bunches with its stalk. Regular and vigorous pigeages were carried out every 4 hours during the first half of the fermentation, then every 8 hours thereafter. The wine is then aged in 300-litre French oak ; mainly second, third and fourth filling with 10% new barrels . After 20 months of aging in barrels, the wine was bottled without fining and without filtration.
