Xavier Vignon and the Sea Foundation extend their partnership!

For the past two years, Xavier Vignon has been actively involved with the Sea Foundation, whose work aims to protect marine ecosystems. €12,000 have already been collected in 2020 with a cuvée designed by the painter Nicolas Vial.

In 2022, the Foundation asked the fashion designer and stylist Ines de la Fressange to create a new style of label.

For each bottle sold, €1 will be donated to the Sea Foundation.

91/100 - SUCKLING

"Full blackberry fruit, generous body and positive herbal freshness make this an appealing Cotes-du-Rhone. Slight sappiness at the bold finish, but there’s so much fruit and concentration that this actually adds something to the wine. Good length. Drink or hold."

Terroir of limestone scree for whites grapes.

Grenaches are made from rolling pebble soils.

Mourvèdres and Syrah grown on high altitude marl plots. 

Vinification

The Syrah was drunk in mid-September with the whites and whole grapes. This is followed by a long cold maceration with limited extractions to encourage diffusion. They were incorporated at the end of the fermentation phase.

Once the fermentation has begun, a space is voluntarily left in the tanks to allow the delayed addition of other contributions of Grenache and Mourvedre. It allows to extend the reduction phase and to add more complexity.

Cold pressing to delay malolactic fermentations and maintenance of malo free juices until spring 2020. 

The malos were carried out in delay before the following summer and made it possible to regasify the whole in clear wine. 

Ageing

A little oxydative ageing about 20% in barrels of one-wine to refine the Syrah quite reductive.

The rest was aged in truncated wood and concrete vat. 

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