SAINT-JOSEPH LIEU-DIT DIGUE 2018 (Yves CUILLERON)

The Lieu-dit Digue cuvée is a single plot 100% Roussanne white wine . The plot is located in the eponymous locality of the Saint-Pierre de Boeuf village.

TERROIR

At the place called Digue, the vines grow on a soil of dark anatexites with cordierites, a rock resulting from the fusion of the gneiss and whose formation is estimated at -400 million years.

The presence of cordierite indicates that the magma was rich in aluminum and that the fusion took place by a low pressure and high temperature metamorphism.

This acid rock becomes aquifer over time, and the water it retains causes cracks in the rock during frost episodes in winter. It is through these crevices that the vine can then slide its roots to find water and nutrients.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The grapes face due south, which allows them to reach optimal maturity. They are harvested manually and by successive sorting : several harvests are made in the vines depending on the grapes maturity degree.

The grapes are pressed and the must obtained is left for settling. It is then transferred to oak barrels for alcoholic and malolactic fermentations which take place with indigenous yeasts and bacteria.

The must is then aged for 9 months on its fine lees which are regularly stirred to bring the wine roundness.

The bottle is sealed with a DIAM30® cork stopper which guarantees the absence of any TCA contamination or cork taste.