Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Cuvée Tradition 2007

Parcels from different soils (sands, pebbly grounds, red clay)

Grape variety : 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre – stems removal : 80 % - maceration : 15 to 18 days – manual must pressing once a day - elevage : 80% in vat, 20% in barrels (1/3 new) – keep time : 5 to 20 years

Tasting:

• color: dark crimson
• flavors: black cherry, raspberry, Provençal herbs, pepper

15 000 to 18 000 bottles per year

Cuvée Chaupin 2007

This 100% grenache vintage, located on the cold and late soil named Chapoin has been able to reach an optimum maturity thanks to ideal september climate conditions. The elevage showed flavors of red fruits and liquorice while keeping the soil-caracteristic smoothness et melted tannins. An elegant and powerful grenache !

Grape variety : 100% Grenache - stems removal : 80 % - maceration : 22 days , must pressing : once a day - elevage : 30 % barrels (1/4 new), 70 % vat - rendering : 25 - 30 Hl/ha - plantation : 1912 for the oldest part - keep time : 5 to 25 years.

Tasting:

• color: intensive crimson
• flavors: cherry liquor, licorice, flowers
• very rich and mighty but with melted tannin

12 000 to 16 000 bottles per year

Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2007

This vintage comes from four parcels located in different soils which perfectly match during assembly : a “southern” pebbly soil brings fat and power, a Chaupin-like soil for freshness and acidity, a red clay pebbly soil (but very late picked because located to the north of the appellation) brings structure and body, and finally a sandy-limestone soil for smoothness. Harvesting took place between 23 of september and 5 of october. Grapes had an extraordinary concentration with mature skins which, as on Chaupin soil, have benefited from september optimal climate conditions.

The result is a very large crimson red wine with cramped but smooth tannins, a nice balance, as well as black fruits and liquorice flavor. A bottle which can be kept for very long time.

Grape variety: 85% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 3% Mourvèdre, 2% various - Stems removal: 80 % - Maceration: 28 days - Manual must pressing: once a day - Vines age : 60 to 100 years - Elevage : 25% barrels (40% new), 75% vat.

Tasting:

• color: ink , crimson
• flavors: fruits, licorice
• Rich and mighty, very youth and of a 'great accuracy'

10 000 to 15 000 bottles per year

Côtes-du-Rhône

Cuvée Tradition 2008

Grape variety : 50% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre, 15% vieux Carignan, 5% Cinsault – stem removal : 80% - maceration : 12 to 15 days – elevage : 6 to 9 months in vat

Tasting :

• flavors: strawberry, black cherry , a tinge of minerality and spices

60 000 to 80 000 bottles per year.

Cuvée Villages "Terre d'Argile" 2007

This vintage, an assembly of three grape varieties (Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah), comes from the wonderful red clay pebbly grounded soil located to the north of Courthézon. Syrahs and Mourvèdres benefit from a very important green harvest (30 to 40% is removed).

The result is a ruby red wine with flavors of red ruits, spices, bitter chocolate, where mouth sensation is complex and nervious , with fat and well-worked tannins, and where we can feel the power of Syrahs and Mourvèdres though smoothened through barrel elevage

Grape variety : 1/3 Syrah 1/3 Grenache 1/3 Mourvèdre - Maceration : 18 to 21 days - manual must pressing once a day - Elevage 60% in barrels (1/3 new) (syrah mourvèdres), 40% in vat (grenache).

Tasting:

• color: ruby, deep purple
• flavors: black fruits, chocolate, toas
• to drink in the following 10 years

20 000 bottles per year

Cuvée Les Garrigues 2007

Very old grenache on a faulous red clay pebbly soil traversed by Mistral.

Grape variety : 100% Grenache (60 to 80 years old) - stems removal : 75% - maceration : 21 days – manual must pressing once a day - elevage : 80% in vat, 20% in barrels – rendering : 28 hl/ha – keep time : 5 to 15 years.

Soil power allied with old grenache's smoothness.

3 000 to 5 000 bottles per year.<:p>

Vin-de-Pays

Principauté d'Orange "Terre de Bussière" 2007

This Vin de Pays, an assembly of Syrah and Merlot located in a place named “Bussière”, surprises by its power and strengh. It perfectly expresses the maturity potential and the nice balance of this millésime. Merlots barrels elevage gives it even more strengh.

Grape variety : 55% Merlot, 25% Syrah, 10% Grenache, 10% Cabernet - soil : gravely alluvia – rendering : Merlot : 40 - 45 hl/ha , Syrah : 45 - 50 hl/ha - barrels elevage during 12 months including 30 % new.

Tasting:

• color: ruby, crimson
• flavors: black fruits, chocolate , toast
• To drink in the following 3 or 4 years

80 000 bottles per year.