2023 VDF - Quartet
2023 VDF - Quartet
A new iteration of this cuvee, incredibly beautiful in 23, super pure-fruited and mineral, heady with dark berries and roses. Nimble, precise and joyful.
Cuvée: Quartet
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Syrah, Grenache, Muscat
Vintage: 2023
Winemaking: A 4-5 day whole-bunch maceration of varieties grown in the hills on schist, a site they have worked for the last couple of years. No extraction, pressed gently, matured in concrete for 6 months.
Soil: Schist
Sulphur: none added
Laurent's dad had 40 hectares and sold 37 of them back in 2000. He changed career but kept 3 hectares. The Grenache have been planted by Laurent's granddad in 1949. Laurent used to work at the Verre Volé for few years and then he went to learn winemaking with Alain Castex (Le Casot des Mailloles). In October 2017 he took over with Melissa his father 3hectares. All wines are made without any use of chemicals, are unfined and unfiltered and not sulphured.