LA GRANDE OURSE LE PEYRON 2020 (Pascal CHALON)

TERROIR

This is a new wine made by Pascal CHALON: LE PEYRON is a a blend of old vines of Grenache and vines of Mouvèdre planted on two plots of the Le Peyron place, located in the TULETTE village, on a terrace where the soil is made of sandy-clay silt with the presence of limestone gravel.
This recently formed soil is of fluvial origin.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

Although the estate is not DEMETER certified yet (certification is planned for 2021), Pascal CHALON is already using biodynamic preparations and herbal teas to cure the plants. Its goal is to increase the plant decoctions to minimize the copper use in the vineyard because the latter saturates the soil. The wines have been certified Organic Farming since 2008.

On the Le Peyron two plots, the vines are gobelet pruned. The grenache variety vines are very old, they were planted in 1913.

The grapes are harvested by hand and sorted directly in the vineyard at the time of picking. Each grape varietiy is vinified separately, with very moderate use of SO2 during the different stages of winemaking.

The grapes are destemmed before being crushed and then put into vats for a maceration of about 3 weeks. The marc cap formed on the surface is regularly broken up by punching down and reincorporated into the must by pumping over, an action carried out every day which consists of removing the juice from the vat's bottom and pouring it back onto the cap that floats to the vat's top.

During the maceration phase, the alcoholic fermentation is triggered by the action of native yeasts. Once the latter is complete, the must of Grenache is racked into tunes and the the must of Mouvèdre is racked into 228-liter oak barrels for a 12-month ageing period.

At the end of the ageing process, the musts of both grape varieties are blended, then filtered before bottling. No fining is done