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Domaine de l'Hortus
( domaine hortus )
Coteaux du Languedoc Pic St Loup
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Domaine de la Prose
Coteaux du Languedoc
St-George-d'Orques ( saint george orques )
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Mme Orliac of Dom. de l'Hortus, owner |
A visitor tasting the wine and taking notes |
Stainless steel equipment |
The roof-top of the cuverie at Prose. The
grapes can be brought onto the roof with the tractor and dumped directly
into the fermentation vats, the lids of which can be seen on the roof |
The view from the roof. On a clear day
you can see the sea |
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Domaine de l'Hortus
Coteaux du Languedoc
Pic-St-Loup
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Mme Patricia de Mortillet |
The roof-top of the cuverie |
M Bertrand de Mortillet, wine maker, still in his 20s, taking the lead
in renewing the Domaine |
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The stainless steel cuves at Hortus. Just
under the roof one can see the door where the grapes are brought in so
as to avoid pumping |
Domaine de la Prose
Coteaux du Languedoc
St-George-d'Orques
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Domaine Saint Martin de la Garrigue
Montagnac
Coteaux du Languedoc
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The wood aging cellar for Prose's top wine cuvées.
Not yet very large |
M Bertrand de Mortillet |
Some quite old wooden fermentation cuves |
This is 'batonnage' (or 'bâtonnage'): stirring up the lees
of the wine
with a stick to give more character to the wine |
The imposing cuverie with both stainless
and concrete vats |
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( Prieure de
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Pezenas ) |
Prieuré de
Saint-Jean de Bébian
Pézenas
Coteaux du Languedoc
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Mas de Daumas Gassac
Aniane
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In the process of pumping-over the
fermenting wine (remontage) to submerge the 'cap' (chapeau) |
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The wood aging cellar |
On top of the old stone or concrete
fermentation vats. To the left there is a cooling/heating devise
submerged in the cuve |
A visit to the cuverie |
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Les Vins Skalli
Sète
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Domaine Le Nouveau Monde
Vendres
Coteaux du Languedoc
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The wood aging cellar at Daumas Gassac |
Tasting |
The guide at Skalli showing the scale
model of the 'production plant' |
The visitors viewing gallery on top of
the three (!) bottling lines. A good illustration of Skalli's size: most
producers only rent a mobile bottling unit when they need it |
Mainly very traditional concrete vats but
also some new stainless steel |
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Domaine de la Prose
Coteaux du Languedoc
St-George-d'Orques
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Chateau de l'Engarran
Laverune
Coteaux du Languedoc St George d'Orques
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A visit to the cellar |
The wood aged top cuvée
poured for tasting |
M Bertrand de Mortillet tasting the wine |
The red wine top cuvée,
simply called 'Grande Cuvée' |
Mme Rerolle, one of the two sisters owning
the chateau |
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Ch de l'Engarran's banner |
The visitors' reception |
Mme Rerolle |
The chateau has a beautiful garden |
A passionate visitor |
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Engarran wine decanted for tasting |
Britt Karlsson |
Britt Karlsson |
Deciphering l'Engarran's nose |
Lavender |
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Domaine Saint Martin de la Garrigue
Montagnac
Coteaux du Languedoc
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Prepared for tasting at l'Engarran |
Mme l'oenologue |
Batonnage with a bamboo stick |
A closer look at the batonnage. You can
also see the bung hole stopper used while the barrique is still
fermenting |
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Grapes that have just arrived from
picking and have been dumped in the reception container |
From the reception container the grapes
are fed with a screw... |
...and lifted to the upper floor with a
conveyor belt... |
...and transported into the cuverie with
another... |
...and finally tipped into the
fermentation tank |
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Domaine de la Prose
St-George-d'Orques
Coteaux du Languedoc
St-George-d'Orques
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Chateau de l'Engarran
Laverune
Coteaux du Languedoc
St-George-d'OrquesÞ |
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This is a filter (filtre à
plaques) |
Supervising the pumping over |
Using some plain gardening tools to pull
out the solids when doing the re-vatting |
Emptying a tank into an open container and
then pumping directly back on top |
Tasting the l'Engarran |
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