LES PINS 2019 (Domaine Gripa)

DESCRIPTION

The wine LES PINS is a blend of a majority of Marsanne and of Roussanne. The vines are about 35 years old and provide a yield of 45 hl / ha.

TERROIR

The plots of the GRIPA estate in the Saint-Péray designation are located in the locality called Les Putiers, where the terroir presents two types of recently formed soil :

• A soil made up of torrential alluvial deposits that the rivers spread during the Mindel, one of the last Earth glaciation periods that occurred two million years ago. The deposits are heterogeneous and combine limestone blocks and pebbles embedded in a sandy-gravelly matrix.

• A soil, recently formed, and which consists of colluvial granitic arenas coming from the crystalline basement of the Granite de Tournon. Gravelly and micaceous elements are embedded in a more or less clay matrix.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The grapes are harvested manually and slowly pressed. The juice is then left in tanks for a short settling period, before being racked, for 80% of the must in oak barrels, and for the remaining 20% ​​in thermoregulated tanks.

Once the alcoholic fermentation is complete, the must is matured on its fine lees in 600 and 228 liter barrels until the end of the malolactic fermentation : the ageing phase lasts around 8 months.

Bottling is done in May of the year following the harvest's one.