TERROIR : Vines from the 60s rolled pebbles, white clay. Vines from the 80s sand and silica.

HARVEST : hand picked

VINIFICATION : Red and white grapes vinified separately. “The idea behind this cuvée is to make a wine with white and red grapes. This year we wanted to make a white wine with a strong acidity. Both varieties, grenache blanc and noir, have been harvested in the first days of harvest and both have been directly pressed, no skin contact this year for the whites. Aged 12 months without ouillage but without yeast flor.”

Guillaume & Charles Soulier come from a wine-growing family but started in 2015, after acquiring 8ha in the Gard. Since then the brothers have purchased and planted more vineyards, now working with 10ha. All work in the vineyard is done by hand or with a horse, biodynamic farming and the same philosophy in the cellar.

Their cellar is a few steps down the street from their winery in the small Roman village of Saint-Hilaire-d’Ozilhan. Guillaume primarily handles vineyard work, Charles primarily handles vinification. No machines are used at the domaine, meaning nothing is pumped, and everything is hand-pressed with an old vertical press. After pressing, musts are barreled on their gross lees, and are never racked. Vinification is sulfite-free and nothing is filtered or fined before bottling.