2019 Côtes du Rhône - Premices
2019 Côtes du Rhône - Premices
90% Grenache and 10% Cinsault. Maceration of 4 days, fermentation of 12 days. Aged in concrete tanks, no filtration or fining.
Cuvée: Premices
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: 90% Grenache, 10% Cinsault
ABV: 13.5%
Vintage: 2019
Winemaking: "The 2019 Premices is made of 90% Grenache and 10% Cinsault. We have added Cinsault this time in order to bring more freshness. As usual, it was the first cuvee we have released this year, as it was the first one to be harvested. For this cuvee we usually do very short macerations, which helps achieve a light colour and fresh juice. The maceration took place 4 days in total. After 72h we started to take the juice out of the tank, 1 hl per day, while leaving the whole grapes inside to keep fermenting further. Like this we had constant fresh juice being created. We have been doing this for 4 days in total until all the juice was out. The fermentation was also very short: 12 days - which we call 'rosé style'.
Aged in concrete tanks, no filtration or fining.
Sulphur: 10 mg/l added on bottling
Soil: Clay on limestone soils with South-East exposure
Yield: 35 hl/ha
After deciding that studying city water waste management wasn’t for him, Antoine took over from his dad Pierre in 1998. Shortly joined by his wife Laurence they began making and bottling their own wine. Organic since the 1970’s Pierre had used to sell grapes his grapes to the local co-op. Vineyards are planted with Grenache and Syrah. Very intense vineyard work allows for early harvest, resulting in less-concentrated and lower-alcohol wines. They hand-harvest their 18 hectares of vines, don’t use synthetic yeasts, and don’t fine or filter.