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Location: France, Languedoc-Roussillon
Winemaker: Laura Lees & Arthur Joly
Grapes: Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris
Soil: Clay and limestone
Winemaking: Organic farming. Hand harvest. Wild yeast fermentation. Mature profile, very open, structure, radiance, confusing salinity. A lot of freshness in the mouth, we find a beautiful acid edge that keeps the wine until the end, like our Maïbou, in strength and delicate, Arthur's grandmother.
From the Producers: The adventure began 6 years ago with the idea of saving a vineyard on two schist hills on the confines of the Corbières. Abandoned for 6 years and exposed to the south, they had suffered a lot.
Given the amount of work, no one wanted to get them back. So we decided to restore this vineyard and learned, on the job, both of us, to prune, clear, bring life back to life and make wine.
Our first goal is to find a coherent and respectful human/nature relationship.
These 8-hectare vineyards have been cleared with a pickaxe! We have organized large collective construction sites and today we can say that 50% of the vines will start again. Our first vintage l'Ecume des schistes took place in 2017. After two years of hard work, we produced 1112 bottles. Suffice it to say that we are talking about nectar... This is how, throughout history, we have become winemakers
Since then we have recovered other vines, for their grape variety, their terroir, the opportunities.. We are now working on about ten hectares scattered over Villeneuve, almost all on slopes (except one), and have largely abandoned the abandoned vineyards from the start for which the efforts made were not enough.
Location: France, Languedoc-Roussillon
Winemaker: Laura Lees & Arthur Joly
Grapes: Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris
Soil: Clay and limestone
Winemaking: Organic farming. Hand harvest. Wild yeast fermentation. Mature profile, very open, structure, radiance, confusing salinity. A lot of freshness in the mouth, we find a beautiful acid edge that keeps the wine until the end, like our Maïbou, in strength and delicate, Arthur's grandmother.
From the Producers: The adventure began 6 years ago with the idea of saving a vineyard on two schist hills on the confines of the Corbières. Abandoned for 6 years and exposed to the south, they had suffered a lot.
Given the amount of work, no one wanted to get them back. So we decided to restore this vineyard and learned, on the job, both of us, to prune, clear, bring life back to life and make wine.
Our first goal is to find a coherent and respectful human/nature relationship.
These 8-hectare vineyards have been cleared with a pickaxe! We have organized large collective construction sites and today we can say that 50% of the vines will start again. Our first vintage l'Ecume des schistes took place in 2017. After two years of hard work, we produced 1112 bottles. Suffice it to say that we are talking about nectar... This is how, throughout history, we have become winemakers
Since then we have recovered other vines, for their grape variety, their terroir, the opportunities.. We are now working on about ten hectares scattered over Villeneuve, almost all on slopes (except one), and have largely abandoned the abandoned vineyards from the start for which the efforts made were not enough.