At a Glance

  • Name: The vineyard is covered with small, star-shaped, yellow flowers called astérolides
  • Varieties: Mourvèdre
  • Vine Age: Planted in 2004
  • Terroir: Red-clay soils with galets roulés (rounded alluvial pebbles and cobbles)
  • Viticulture: Organic (certified, practicing since 2008) and biodynamic (certified, practicing since 2011)
  • Winemaking: Destemmed and layers of whole-clusters. Ambient yeast fermentation with pieds de cuve in closed concrete tanks for 7 days, then pressed and racked back to tank to finish fermentation. No temperature control. No punching down or pump overs. Aged in tank. No fining, light filtration. Total sulfur at bottling 30 to 50ppm.