2021 VDF - Premices
2021 VDF - Premices
The second-lightest cuvee of the family, the 2021 is a particular beauty - sappy, brambly fruit is lifted with a livewire acidity, a salted-liquorice core hums beneath. Quite something.
Cuvée: Premices
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Grenache 75% , Syrah 25%
ABV: 13.5%
Vintage: 2021
Winemaking: Hand harvested, de-stemmed and macerated in concrete for 6 days, with the free-run juice bled from the tank at 48-hour intervals to keep extraction low. Pressed to concrete with the free-run and aged for 6-8 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Sulphur: 15mg/l at bottling
Soil: Clay, limestone
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.