Ale

FRANCE – Languedoc
Locality:
FRANCE – Languedoc
Appellation:
Vin de France
Grape Variety:
Alicante
WineMaker:
Thomas Rouanet
Vineyard:
The vineyard, planted in 1981, sits on terroir of clay and sand over limestone.
Viticulture:
Certified organic. Gobelet pruning. Yield 20 hl/ha.
WineMaking:
100% de-stemmed mash fermentation over indigenous yeasts in temperature-controlled tanks for 10 days. Pump-over once a day during fermentation. Gently pressed in a traditional wood vertical basket press followed by malolactic fermentation in tank.
Aging:
10 months in tank.
Bottling:
Neither fined nor filtered. Bottled in Spring. 15 mg/l SO2 added at bottling.
Vineyard region map highlighting Thomas Rouanet in France.