2016 VDF - La Mule
2016 VDF - La Mule
Cuvée: VDF - La Mule
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grape Varieties: Gamay
ABV: 12.5%
Vintage: 2016
Vines are 30-35 years old. Manual harvest. Maceration of 2 to 3 weeks in concrete vats. Indigenous yeasts. No sulphur added during production. Maceration at room temperature. Draining juice every 2 days. No pigeage/remontage. Slow horizontal press. No fining, filtration. 2 grams of SO2 when bottling depending on the year.
Sulphur: 20 mg/l added on bottling
Climate: West/east exposure at 55 metres above sea level. Temperate oceanic climate gradient. Temperatures are never extreme, (neither very hot nor very cold). Mild, rainy winters and cool summers and relatively wet.
Soil: Clay and limestone. Fat and dense soils, Soil mechanically worked with discs and blade hoes.
Yield: 35hl/ha