2019 VDF - Jolie Brise Rosé
2019 VDF - Jolie Brise Rosé
100% Cabernet Franc, split into a 50/50 blend of a direct press and a short, 3-day maceration, before finishing fermentation on bottles.
Cuvée: Jolie Brise Rosé
Style: Sparkling
Colour: Rosé
Grapes/Blend: Cabernet Franc
ABV: 13,5%
Vintage: 2019
Winemaking: With fruit purchased from a parcel into the 2nd year of organic conversion. Direct pressing of 50% of the grapes and short maceration (about 3 hours) for the other 50% to help with structure. Fermentation in indigenous yeasts: starts in tank and finishes in bottles. 3g/l residual sugar.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: The topsoil is clay and glauconite chalk, with many trace elements – particularly iron silicate. The subsoil is chalky tuffeau limestone
Yield: 35 hl/ha
Both had previous careers in engineering and, while taking time out travelling, they ended up WWOOFing in Australia working on a vineyard – hence the name, L'Austral. Pauline studied oenology in Dijon while Laurent worked as a ski and sailing instructor. Pauline did an internship with Aymeric of Melaric. That is how they arrived in Le-Puy and were introduced to Philippe Gourdon who leased them the vineyards.