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Very simple, for each of those tenants that I had the joy of meeting, it is the desire to create his own wine in reviving the vine, freely.
Freedom to choose his relationship to life as Sophie Valin and François Aubry, respectively engineer and veterinarian, based in The Fontude are passed to the practical application of their own reflections. Yes, we can have education and want to be vigneron and sheep farmer! And without Babacool or outside the company!
Admittedly, this shift towards rurality assumed, has done smoothly through meetings and opportunities. Plots into plots, here, now head of a little over 4 acres of vines, north of Lake Salagou , in the hills, the landscape component with a flock of sheep, thirty, for maintenance, meat, and the indispensable contribution of compost. Francis explains very well the value and impact of biodynamics. He who took over the vineyards that nobody wanted, and promised a winning tear, he knows he must listen to each varietal reaction to changing climate and the halting of all chemical media. It takes several years to see the stocks regain strength after such withdrawal. At The Fontude , we find the original varieties of wines from the Languedoc . In white, Terret Bourret, who almost disappeared. In red, Cinsault, the Grenache and Carignan. The feet have a very original look, like chandeliers reversed in fact the result of a size ventilated. The floor is covered with grasses, flowers of all colors. It smells diversity. We breathe the tranquility of the place.
A range of wine reduced
One white, table wine simply forgotten on a vine, the Terret Bourret, harvested mid-September, but not too ripe, a mixture of golden grain and green beans. Pressing, by hand, is necessarily smooth, on a very low yield of the vine. The end of fermentation, François gets an acidic juice, marked, like lemon juice, it will work in oxidation in order to change the flavor to the apple and walnut further. It's painstaking work in the cellar, where attention must be paid on a daily basis. After such a farm nine months, the feast day is savored, smiling like a little happiness in the sun.
Two red, the first Fontitude, assembly Cinsault and Carignan, fresh on the palate, light, all the fruit and tangy flavors. A treat for simplicity with a straight nose that does not cheat and keeps you in suspense. An amazing wine from the Languedoc that follows the pleasure felt in harmony earlier on Feast Day.
The second, Entremonde, from old vines of Carignan, Aramont and Grenache , the town of Breñas in wine country hills of Salagou , the name of Lake formed after the creation of a dam. It worked a little on the expression of tannins. More common for a Languedoc wine , yet it contains a little surprise in his face. Now he distributes the fragrance of flowers, violet and iris. A wine altitude confides Francis.
Three wines, three new sensations, three different expressions of freedom, three juice variety, elegant, refined and accessible to the palace as the wallet. To take advantage, enter a fixed natural wine of the shop.
