Marselan | Domaine Sibille

NAME: PGI Pays D'Oc
TYPE: red
GRAPES: 85% Marselan, 15% Syrah
ORIGIN: France, Languedoc and Roussillon
EVOLUTION: 5 years
SERVICE TEMPERATURE: 18-20° C
RECOMMENDED GLASS: chalice large for red wine
ALCOHOL VOLUME: 14.5%
FORMAT: 75 cl

THE WINE

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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NOTES FROM OUR SOMMELIERS

👁 a beautiful bright garnet red;

👃🏻 notes of black fruit and blackcurrants typical of the vine emerge on the nose;

👄 on the palate it turns out intense And ample , soft , excellent structure and tannins mature .

RECOMMENDED COMBINATION

This Marselan is a powerful and structured wine that favors dishes succulent and big intensity . It goes perfectly with grilled lamb chops, leg of lamb, pigeon, filet mignon, game and plums, spicy cuisine.

REFINEMENT

A Marselan and Syrah grown in sandstone soil according to the dictates of organic farming. The harvest is manual and after the selection of the bunches the maceration takes place followed by the alcoholic fermentation in steel. The wine then ages on its lees and then in steel.

YOU WILL LOVE IT FOR...

his power .

TERRITORY OF ORIGIN

TERROR

We are in Languedoc Roussillon, one of the largest and most productive regions in all of France, with production that has increasingly focused on quality in recent years. The climate is Mediterranean and warm, in France it is one of the most favorable for the cultivation of vines, even if some areas are quite cool, such as the hills of Minervois and Limoux, thanks to the slightly higher altitude. The soils are mostly calcareous, schistose and stony, which form the characteristic garrigues, a landscape rocky interspersed with lush Mediterranean scrub. In these soils syrah and carignan grow well and produce rich wines structure , tannins And flavor . In the plains the soils are alluvial and fertile and mainly grenache, cinsault and muscat are grown, obtaining wines richer in alcohol

CELLAR

In December 2015 Barbara and Pierre created Domaine Sibille in Laure-Minervois in the Aude region of France. Based on a small organic estate at the foot of the Montagne Noire, they discovered and decided to work just over 15 hectares of vineyards: 5 hectares with a protected designation of origin (PDO) Minervois and 10 hectares with a protected geographical indication (PGI) Pays d 'Oc. 60% of the area produces red and rosé wines and 40% white. The potential is 80,000 bottles, but the actual production depends greatly on the vintage. The soil expresses itself through a sandstone terroir, which brings freshness and structure to the wines. Only Viognier and Pays d'Oc are on clay-limestone soils.

They prefer manual harvesting for the reds, rosés and part of the whites, and work by gravity trying to reduce the added sulphites as much as possible. For reds, macerations can last up to two months and for whites, maturation on the lees naturally gives their bottles breadth and depth.

The Maison's wines are not austere, they are the fruit and expression of the terroir and the vines. They produce grenache, carignan, syrah, mourvèdre and piquepoul noir for their ability to give great rosé, marselan. Among the whites: viognier and roussanne, as well as the classic chardonnay.