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Domaine Vieux Telegraphe - VignArtea

CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE    55 ha    SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE    WINEMAKER: Famille BRUNIER


ESTATE HISTORY


The Vieux Télégraphe Estate represents 125 years of existence where the Brunier family has been cultivated vines on this magnificent pebbles terroir, whose origin were caused by the alpine glaciers melting that took place in the Quaternary, a million years ago.





TERROIR


The oldest estate plot is located at a place called La Crau whose thick layer of pebbles rolled into a land once considered ungrateful and unfit for culture. It was planted with vines in 1891, when Henri Brunier donated this plot to his son Hippolyte. The wines then produced were named "Vieux Télégraphe", because of the presence of a signal tower installed there in 1821 by the inventor of the optical telegraph, Henri Chappe.

Six generations have since followed, expanding the estate to 55 hectares. In 1986, the Brunier family bought the domaine de la Roquète , whose vineyards are located in Pignan and on the Piedlong plateau, and which produces the wines Piedlong in red and Clos de la Roquète in white. The Domaine de la Roquète has definitely merged with the domaine du Vieux Télégraphe in 2017.

The extension of the domain continues, with a current total surface of 100 hectares distributed in AOP Châteauneuf-du-Pape, AOP Ventoux, and IGP Vaucluse. Must also be added the exploitation of the domain Les Pallières, in partnership with Kermit Lynch in 1998, and the creation of a vineyard in Lebanon, "Massaya".





WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING


The work philosophy has never changed since the estate's creation. It is based on a so-called "sustainable" culture. The treatments carried out in the vineyards are in accordance with the rules applied in organic farming and provided in a well thought way, because the goal of the Brunier family is to produce wines without chemical residues and with a minimal external pollution. The grape harvests are manual and the grapes are carefully sorted because "Fine fruit is essential for a fine vintage". In the cellar, vinification and ageing are traditional: destemming, capmoistening, cap-punching, temperature management, fermentation time, and so on, are adapted to each wine and each vintage, so that the final product meets two requirements: personality and balance.

The bet was won, the last vintages tastings revealed wines of great elegance, with a silky juice of a rare palatability.


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