Origine 2022

TASTING:

Deep and breathless, this wine opens with notes of plum and black cherry of great intensity. The chiseled and tonic mouth retains a lot of substance and smoothness, mixing with the notes of black fruits a very subtle spicy touch.
The tannins of great finesse, forged by the limestone spring of the terroir, carry the wine with great elegance. With great aromatic persistence, the finish offers the wine a renewed freshness and sap.

PERFECT AGREEMENTS:

ORIGINE, in finesse, goes well with beef Wellington.

PLOTS, TERROIR, CULTURE:

ORIGINE comes from a selection of three plots with very light soils, widely scattered with rocks, located on hillsides of pure schist and very filtering calcoschist. These three plots cultivated in biodynamics, of barely 7 hectares, look at the rising sun, thus preserving the freshness of the grapes in the middle of summer.
Driven by crawler or with our horses, ploughed, the soils give very little yield; it is only 16 hl/ha for a planting density of 4000 to 5000 feet/ha.

GRAPE VARIETIES:

ORIGINE is built around three grape varieties: the century-old black Grenache from the Cabirou area (planted in 1914), the Carignan from Devèze, planted in 1952, and the young Syrah from the same climate.

GRAPE HARVEST:

The harvest is carried out entirely by hand, in 20 kg crates. The grapes are then completely destemmed.

VINIFICATION:

Each plot is vinified terroir by terroir, in order to reflect the specificities of each. The wine is vinified in 84 hl concrete vats in order to preserve the freshness of flesh and the purity of fruit which characterize the wines of Mas Amiel.

BREEDING AND BOTTLING:

The Carignan and Syrah are aged in 40 hl tuns, while the Grenache remains in concrete cuve, all for 14 months.

GUARD TIME:

10 to 15 years old