Jerôme Benoit
Mas des Flauzieres, Cuvée Julien, Séguret 2016
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Medium to full-bodied, ripe, sweetly fruited beauty gives off ample notes of white pepper, violette, cedary spice and jammy berry fruits. Natural fermentation. Vegan wine: using only minerals (diatomaceous earth) for finning. Only Celerier's Cellar sells this wine in the USA.
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20 to 30 years old
Certified HVE (sustainable agriculture). Pruning Gobelet for Syrah and Cordon de Royat for Grenache done by hand, all short for smaller yeild and bring more natural concentration. Cane shipped on site to turn into nautral fertilizer. Plowing both mechanical and by hand. Tying up, disbudding and leaves removal done by hand and adapted. No green harvest. Minimal to no intervention thanks to the heavy work done by hand and good aeration brought by Mistral wind. Hand and mechanical harvest.
Destemmed and pressed. Traditional maceration and natural acoholic fermentation with indigineous yeast for 21 days at 25°: cap-punching twice a day in open vats, daily pump over. Stactic settling. Malolactic fermentaion in 4-5-6 wine french oak barrels for 18 month. Clarified with diatomeus earth and bottled.
Red blend
Grenache 70%, Syrah 30%
1,400 cases
Rhône Valley
2016 is an excellent vintage with a late maturity. The budburst of the vines happened 10 days after the one from previous year, so were the harvest. Nonetheless, the humity level and interaction with the sun made this vintage very healthy: no disease, perfect condition for minimal to no intervention. The vinification were monitored wihtout any complication to give an excellent vintage once again.
Southern Rhône Valley, France
Single plot terroir located at the highest altitude of Seguret AOP (480 meters). Rocky marl-limestone dry ideal for red wine.
2016