PIEDLONG 2020 - Red Wine (Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe)

TERROIR

This wine is produced by blending a majority of 70-year-old Grenache vines with a 50-year-old Mourvèdre grapes. It is also an blend of two parcels, since the old vines of Grenache are located on the plot Piedlong, and the vineyards of Mourvèdre on the place called Pignan.

• The Piedlong plot, 9 ha, rests on the summits plateau of Châteauneuf-du-Pape which is made up of a sandy or clayey Pliocene soil (-3 Million years old) which covers the sands and molassic sandstone of Carpentas. (Miocene). This plot culminates at 129 meters above sea level, it is the highest of the designation.
  
  
• The Pignan plot, 2 ha, is located east of the Piedlong plot, and is based on Carpentras sand and molassic sandstone dating from the Middle Miocene geological period (-13 million years).

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The PIEDLONG wine was formerly produced by the Domaine de la Roquète that the Brunier family bought in 1986 before its definitive merger with the Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe in 2017.

The estate works according to the Sustainable Agriculture principles : no treatment is carried out systematically but only when necessary. The soils are amended with natural compost. The fight against insects is carried out using the mating disruption principles, thus avoiding any insecticide use.

Harvested manually, the grapes are sorted twice in the vineyard and a third time in the cellar. They are lightly crushed, destemming is selective. The winemaking method is the same as the one used for the red wine Vieux Télégraphe, namely a traditional fermentation of 30 and 40 days in concrete vats and wooden vats followed by an ageing in 60 hl oak foudres for 20 to 22 months.

The wine is neither fined nor filtered before bottling.