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CUVEE TRADITION ROSE

This wine is made from Tibouren (90%) and Grenache (10%), grown on their organic estate 800m from the coast. The 30+-year-old goblet-trained vines are rooted deeply in calcareous clay. Selected as one of only 18 cru classés in Provence, this rosé is widely collected for its longevity and singularity. The grapes are hand-harvested early in the morning before being direct pressed into stainless steel for a cold fermentation. The wine is then racked into 120-year-old foudre. It ages vous voile (under flor) for a year before being bottled. 

CUVEE TRADITION ROUGE

This impossibly beautiful vineyard is on the Maures Mountains overlooking the Toulon Harbour. The cool oceanic breezes both delay ripening and prevent rot. Soils are salty, calcareous clay that’s surprisingly well-draining. The goblet-trained vines are roughly twenty years old. Tibouren (90%) and Grenache (10%) are crushed into stainless steel tank to ferment at cool temperatures. The wine undergoes pump-overs twice per day for just over a week to maximize extraction without excessively high phenolics. It is aged in large format casks for six months before being racked and bottled. 

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