$78.00
Mostly Grenache Blanc and Grenache Gris, wwith some skin fermented Xarel-lo from Penedès added in for good measure. As per with Duchêne, there’s no lack of personality on show here. It leaps from the glass, succulent in the mouth and salty on the finish. Wow.
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Bruno Duchêne is originally from the Loire Valley where his family had a thriving business selling farm machinery. He then became a distributor of wild mushrooms in the Loire and Burgundy and discovered wine, particularly meticulous made, non-interventionist wines.
Bruno owns just 4 hectares spread over 4 areas, all on decomposed schistose soils at an altitude of around 300m – each parcel differing slightly in exposition. The vineyards in Collioure are extremely low yielding and, as they are planted on terraced hillsides, very difficult to work mechanically, which like in Germany’s Mosel region, has contributed to a growing abandonment of these legendary sites. This is a great shame as the real character of any regions wines is defined by it’s original terroir.
His vines are farmed organically, and because of the region’s relatively warm, dry climate, Bruno only has to use a few sulfur treatments each year and because odium is not an issue here, copper is never used. In the winery; after a manual harvest and a rigorous selection there is 10-15 day cool maceration with a natural yeast, whole bunch ferment in 26hl Grenier wooden vats. The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered and only a small amount of sulfur is added at the bottling in most years.
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