Languedoc
Métairies du Clos Vieilles Vignes - 2022 - Françoise Julien et Christophe Peyrus - Magnum
Clos Marie
Definitely a sublime and powerful wine, one that only improves with age and lingers in your mind long after tasting. Forest floor, garrigue, leather, pepper, cacao, dark berries... The palate is ample and structured, intensely aromatic. Best opened at least an hour before tasting.
- Size
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Pic Saint-Loup
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2032
- rock’n’roll
Blend: 50% Syrah, 25% Carignan, 25% Grenache from old biodynamically farmed vines planted on semi-slopes in the Pic Saint-Loup appellation, with clay-limestone soils—hard limestone and decalcified red clay. Hand-harvested and naturally vinified: partially destemmed, with a maceration of about 20 days. Aged for two years in casks and 600L demi-muids. Bottled at the Domaine, unfiltered and unfined, with just a micro-dose of sulfur.
Françoise Julien & Christophe Peyrus
Françoise Julien and Christophe Peyrus have been at the helm of Clos Marie since 1995. Nestled in Lauret in the Languedoc, this dynamic duo tends to around 20 hectares of vines, biodynamically from the start – no biggie! Christophe, a former French Navy man, had no idea he'd end up among the vines. But here we are… and it's a smashing success! With Françoise, a former marine biology professor,...
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