Vignes d'à Côté Syrah

Nice fresh red fruits and delicate spices give a lovely expression of the Syrah. Pleasant and aromatic wine. An expressive nose on the small red fruits. Naturel cover cropping to avoid erosion. No insecticides with respect of soil and vine balance, few treatments (depending on weather and the necessary) and small amount of organic fertilizer. Vigour and yield control, leaf-thinning and green harvesting to promote grape ripening. Disbudding on the spring. The grapes are hand-picked; and then sorted, crushed and partial destemmed in the cellar. Fermented in open top, temperature-controlled vats for about 3 weeks, with regular cap-punching and pumping-over. Alcoholic fermentation in vats with native yeasts and malolactic fermentation in barrels. Maturing in 7 months with 50% in barrels 50% in stainless steel tanks. ABV 12%