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OUR RED WINES FROM LATOUR DE FRANCE

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		If you ever go to Roussillon country, you should get a special « illness », you should have the wish to stay all your life long in these wonderful landscapes with its fantastic magnetic skies; The Agly vallée and its great soils in Latour de france gave us all satisfaction for having our second estate. Soil of schist and gneiss on LATOUR, calcareous clays on ESTAGEL AND CALCE, our soil is incredible rich. Calcareous clays give to the wine power and generosity to our wine, schist and gneiss give delicacy. With 2600 hours of sun every year, Roussillon country is a setting for native vine; The CARIGNAN, old vine with Spain origin, came first in France in the 12 century; Later on Languedoc will produce huge quantities(200HL/ha) of Carignan with power quality;

		Today CARIGNAN REVENGE is time, all “amateur” of wine recognise the great quality of CARIGNAN; In fine and poor soil with low yield of OLD WINEYARD, we will have fantastic wine, deep and rich with extreme power and rather fine. More power on granite et more on the fruit and “garrigue” perfume if the soil is calcareous clays notely on Calce village. That wine Carignan is more fitted for Roussillon than SYRAH, because Syrah need to be more on soil like Cassagne to find delicacy and flowers like you can have in Château-neuf du Pape.

SYRAH bring many aroma and parfume, specialy tobacco, liquorice, musc, humus, blackcurrant, truffle and various spice. With long matured(18month) you will find flowers like violet and sweet tannin. The Mourvedre, FAMOUS for Bandol wine, i twill give his best near Cuchoux Castle ; Sure because of soil and may be because the fresh air of mediterraneen sea. Le Grenache d'origine espagnole arrive en France au Moyen Age, ce cépage vigoureux très résistant au vent et à la sécheresse, donne sa pleine mesure de ses qualités dans nos coteaux sec et caillouteux avec des rendements très faibles (25Hl/ha). La couleur est concentrée et dense, et ses aromes dominants évoquent les fruits à noyau bien mûrs (griotte, pruneau), les fruits cuits, le cassis, la framboise, les fruits secs ou confits (orange, figue), poivre, réglisse, cacao, vieux bois sont encore les aromes des vins de Grenache qui sont capiteux, puissants et structurés. Afin de trouver le parfait équilibre de nos vins nous assemblons suivant les millésimes, Grenache à des cépages plus nerveux tels le Carignan ou la Syrah, le Mourvèdre venant compléter ce magnifique équilibre. The wine GRENACHE also very famous in Château-neuf du Pape, had origin in spain and came first in france in the middle age; This wine is very resistant to wind and dry weather; It will give his best on our stony hill, with very low yield(25HL/ha). His color have a good density, aroma bring stone fruit test(morello cherry,prune), blackcurrant, raspberry, dry fruit or crystalised fruit(orange, fig), pepper, cacao, old wood add to Grenache wine with heady feeling, powerfull and structure. To find the perfect well-balance in our wine we blend in different way the wine following to each millesime where GRENACHE, SYRAH, MOUVEDRE, and OLD CARIGNAN give us the best of ROUSSILLON.