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Domaine Saint Martin de la
Garrigue
Montagnac
Coteaux du Languedoc
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M Guida, the owner |
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The chateau is a combination
of various styles |
In the reception and wine tasting
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Prieuré de Saint
Jean de Bébian
Pézenas
Coteaux du Languedoc
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Jean de Bebian,
Pezenas ) |
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| M Jean-Claude le Brun, the owner, who
previously managed la Revue du Vin de France |
Jean-Claude le Brun |
Jean-Claude le Brun |
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In the
wine tasting room |
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| Olives on the several hundred years old
olive trees in the garden |
Tasting the white
wine Prieuré
de Saint Jean de Bébian |
...and then the red
wine |
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Mas de Daumas Gassac
Aniane
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Les Vins
Skalli
Sète
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The guide |
M Aimé
Guibert, the owner of this famous wine estate |
( aime guibert ) |
The guide
at Skalli |
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Domaine le
Nouveau Monde
Vendres
Coteaux du Languedoc
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| Skalli's
export and sales manager |
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wine tasting room |
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Traditional
concrete fermenting vats are difficult to temperature control. But with
a cooling/heating coil, such as this, that can be lowered into the vat,
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Mlle
Anne Laure
Gauch, the daughter, is putting more and more her own imprint on the
wines |
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| Britt
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Vineyard
hands |
Anne Laure Gauch, wine maker |
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Karlsson |
Britt
Karlsson |
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Anne Laure Gauch |
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Jacques Gauch,
père, delivering some wine |
A vineyard
tractor in the back yard |
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Domaine Pech Redon
Narbonne
Coteaux du Languedoc la Clape
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| M
Christophe Bousquet,
owner-wine maker |
Bringing
home a load of manually harvested grapes from the vineyard |
Not too big
plastic crates are used so as not to crush the grapes too quickly |
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| Britt
Karlsson |
This
harvest-coloured building houses the tasting room |
Britt
Karlsson |
This is the
grape reception area: the plastic crates are pushed in from the left,
fed into the crusher-destemmer and fed directly into the vat underneath
the machine |
The
stainless crusher-destemmer (fouloir-egrappoir) |
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| Mme
Bousquet fetching some bottles in the cellar |
Grapes ready to harvest on an old vine |
An even
older vine, full with grapes |
Grapes ripe
and starting to shrivel |
Pech-Redon
is close to the sea and often get mist or fog |
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vineyards are locate on a plateau on a mountain and on the hillsides |
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Wine making
Lesson 1: "This is a grape bunch." |
Tasting |
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Chateau Etang des Colombes
Corbières ( corbieres )
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| Mme Gualco,
owner |
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Karlsson |
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One way of training the vines in Corbières |
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Vendres
Coteaux du Languedoc
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| A young
vine, only a few years old |
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Bringing
home the trophies |
An old
experimental press for micro-fermentations and a glass pipette to take
samples |
An
old-fashioned pump used to pump over the wine during fermentation
(remontage) |
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Domaine
Pech Redon
Narbonne
Coteaux du Languedoc la Clape
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Chateau
Etang des Colombes
Corbières
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| Wine for
sale |
Bringing in
the grapes. The round things on the floor (like large pucks) are the
tops of the vats |
The
wine tasting
room with all sorts of 'bibelots' |
The wood aging cellar for the wines, one of the few with
chandeliers |
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Aniane
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Domaine
Pech Redon
Narbonne
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M Guibert |
A very good example of how a young vine is
trained at Pech-Redon |
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