Domaine Puech Redon is located about twenty miles northwest of Nimes in southern France. It is owned/operated by Cyril Cuche - though he has been joined since 2017 by famed natural winemaker Eric Texier. The estate is massive and mostly filled with fields of wheat, as the land used to belong to a large-scale bread baking company.
clay & limestone soil. 30 year old vines. eastern exposure.
Intentionally declassified to a Vin de France, this wine could fall within the following three appellations: IGP Cévennes, IGP Pays d'Oc or the AOC Duché d’Uzès
lovely high tone perfume, amazing texture,
region: Languedoc, France
varietal: 50% Viognier, 40% Grenache Blanc, 10% Roussanne
style: white
farming/cellar: certified organic, hand harvested, ambient yeast, direct whole cluster press, juice is quickly cooled to help with racking off the gross lees. After they are removed, a pied de cuve from the same vineyard is added to the juice. Part of the wine is fermented and aged in barrique and the rest in concrete. lightly filtered, unfined, no added so2
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