2015 Côtes du Rhône - Flonflons
2015 Côtes du Rhône - Flonflons
The name means "a silly thing", but this is not a silly wine. Deeper and more complex than their other "entry-level" wines.
Cuvée: Flonflons
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Grenache, Syrah
ABV: 13.5%
Vintage: 2015
Manual harvest, 100% de-stemmed. Sulphur-free, CO2 saturation, native yeasts, 12-day fermentation in concrete tank. Aged in concrete, no fining or filtration.
Sulphur: none added
Soil: Clay on limestone soils with South-East exposure
Yield:
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.