Languedoc
Faugères "Réserve" - 2020 - Binet & Jacquet - Magnum
Domaine Binet & Jacquet
A powerful and elegant Faugères, with notes of black fruits and spices... Palate: fresh and robust, this is powerful yet silky juice. A beautiful cuvée that deserves to be enjoyed at the dinner table. Open two hours before tasting.
- Size
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Faugères
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
A blended cuvée: Syrah, Carignan, Grenache and Cinsault (the percentage varies depending on the vintage). From a complex vineyard of 17 parcels with schist soils, cultivated biodynamically in its entirety since 1999. No chemicals are used in the vineyard or in the cellar. The grapes are harvested by hand with small crates, and yields of around 25-30 hl/ha. The 17 plots are vinified separately and without sulphur, macerated for 3 to 5 weeks, then matured in vats for two years. Bottled with just a microdose of sulphur.
Binet & Jacquet
Olivier Binet and Pierre Jacquet settled in Faugères in 1999 to found their 9-hectare estate, but only seven years later did they finally decide they were ready to release their first bottles! Such is the degree of patience and rigour that defines these two men. Over time, they divided their estate into 17 individual parcels, all of which they naturally vinify separately, to then produce three...
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