TERROIRS DE BÉRU 2017 (CHATEAU DE BERU)

DESCRIPTION

TERROIRS DE BÉRU is a blend of all the estate's plots. The variety of exposure and sometimes of outcropping rocks allows to obtain a global expression representative of the Béru terroir's typicality.

TERROIR

The eight plots forming the 15 hectare vineyard of the castle are all distributed around the hill of Béru. Their predominantly full south and southwest exposure favors the bunches optimal ripening whose grapes are small, concentrated and rich in aromas.

The soil dates from the middle and upper Kimmeridgian era (-174 to -145 million years), a period where the region was submerged under a warm and shallow sea, populated by small oysters, the Exogyra Virgula. Their shells are now fossilized in the limestone banks themselves interspersed in the middle of gray marl layers whose presence testifies to a temporary Kimmeridgian seas depth increase.

This alternation of marly outcrops and limestone outcrops according to the plots will give birth to a wine of character, generous, and having a nice tension in the palate.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

All the vines are cultivated in accordance with the Biodynamic principles (the estate has been Demeter certified since 2010).

The grapes are harvested manually, and the grains are sorted on the spot, directly in the vines at the time of picking in order to avoid an excessive manipulation which could deteriorate the integrity of the grape's skin.

The bunches are immediately pressed, and the alcoholic fermentation starts spontaneously under the native yeasts effect. The malolactic fermentation then takes over, and the must continues to mature on lees for 18 months mainly in oak barrels, only 10% of the must is aged in stainless steel tanks.

The wine is neither fined nor filtered and no sulphits are added on the harvest, under the press or during fermentation, but only, and in minute doses, at the time of racking and bottling.