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The grapes are hand picked and brought to
the winery. There they are presses in a pneumatic press with low pressures
to avoid the extractions of hard or green tannins. The juice is then put
straight into oak barrels. We use between 25-30% new oak to maintain varietal
character.
The
barrels are stacked in the cellar where we keep the temperatures
low to ensure a slow fermentation and to get more flavor,finesse and elegance.
Every week during maturation, prior to malolactic fermentation, we do
a stirring (batonnage). This process feeds the wine and gives it more
body and fatness. The wines remain on their lees until Spring. We then
do a first racking and we keep some lees to continue the maturation of
the wines. At the end of July we do a second racking to prepare for the
bottling that usually occurs at the end of August.
We like to keep the bottles at least 6 months in our cellar before releasing
them, we want the wine to be in the best condition before it goes out
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