Domaine Garrabou Limoux "L'Estrade" (chenin) dry white 2022

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Domaine Garrabou "L'Estrade" (chenin) dry white 2022

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Appellation:  Limoux

Cuvée: L'Estrade

Grape variety: 100% Chenin

Cultural method: Organic viticulture (CAB label: Conversion to Organic Agriculture). Emphasis on observation, prophylaxis (promoting all cultural methods to maintain an unfavorable climate for disease establishment). Simple guyot pruning, manual thinning, bud removal, first trimming as late as possible, light leaf removal… Total soil work. Zero herbicides.

Vinification: Manual harvesting at maturity, direct cold pressing, inerting of free-run juice and selection of the best juices, static settling, fermentation (indigenous yeasts) in 500-liter demi-muids at low temperature, regular stirring of the lees guided by tasting, aging for 9 months in used barrels (around 5-10 wines from Burgundy, Pierre Girardin). Wine neither fined (natural clarification in barrels before final racking) nor filtered (winter spent in the cellar avoids subsequent tartar issues). Malolactic fermentation is avoided (to preserve the liveliness of the chenin) and a tiny amount of SO² is added before bottling: 30mg/l of free SO².