Domaine de Beaurenard - Vin Doux Naturel Rasteau 2019

Presentation

Presentation
Since 1980, Domaine de Beaurenard, property of the Coulon family, has also been cultivating a vineyard on stepped hillsides in the Rasteau appellation. On these sharp terroirs surrounded by vast swathes of woodland and garrigue, biodynamic farming reveals its full expression.
The vintage
2019 vintage is in line with the top vintages of the decade. After a nice winter, spring came slowly, where our famous wind “Mistral” helped keep very healthy environments in the vineyard during that important growing season.
Terroir
Ground clay and limestone gravel (with many white pebbles rolled) on a particularly well-exposed hillsides. It is characterized by small clusters very concentrated.
In the vineyard
They are of course manual, advanced and mature enough to have sugar, but before the grapes are "wilted", so that the fruit is very present in the finished wines
Winemaking
These sun-drenched grapes contain more than 260g of sugar per liter natural before mutage which occurred on grain, followed by contact with the skin to fix the beautiful purple color and tannins to be rounded by raising. Bottling without filtration is carried out carefully in Area …
Ageing
2 years in oak barrels.