SAINT-JOSEPH LYSERAS 2023 (Yves CUILLERON)

DESCRIPTION

The LYSÉRAS withe wine is both a blend of grape varieties and plots. The grape varieties making up LYSÉRAS are the marsanne and the roussanne vines, represented in equivalent proportions.

The plots are located in the villages of Chavanay and Saint-Pierre-de-Boeuf whose soils are mostly granitic and sometimes sandy.

TERROIR

The plots of Chavanay and Saint-Pierre-de-Boeuf are based on two types of soil :

• a granite soil, composed of an alternation of granite with biotite (black mica), granite with muscovite (white mica) and dark anatexia with cordierite.
  These three rock types, whose mineral composition differs, were formed around 300 million years ago by fusion of the earth's crust due to a low pressure metamorphism.
  These granite rocks, very hard after their formation, cracked under the action of runoff water which caused them to burst by freezing in winter. It is through these cracks that the vine enters the rock and plunges its roots into it to recover water and nutrients.
  
  
• Aeolian, siliceous and calcareous loess soil, which forms a loose and sandy ground and whose sedimentation took place during the Würmian glaciations, in the Quaternary, two million years ago, when the strong winds tore off fine clay-limestone particles from the ice caps. These soils are more fertile than the granite soils.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The grapes are harvested and sorted manually. The vinification is done plot by plot. The grapes are pressed and then settled.

Alcoholic fermentation takes place in oak barrels and in casks, it starts spontaneously with the native yeasts, before giving way to malolactic fermentation.

The wine is then matured for 9 months on its fine lees, which are regularly stirred. When bottling, the wines are corked with a DIAM10® cork stopper ensuring the absence of TCA contamination (or cork taste).