J Vidal Fleury Cotes Du Rhone Red

Style of wine dry red wine with aging potential optimum up to 5 years of age. History creation of the appellation 1937. Present in the vidal-fleury’s range since the early the 1920’s. Production vidal-fleury production : 3500 hl 38900 cases (eq 12x75cl) 466500 bottles (eq 75cl). Vineyard density 6 000 vine/ha. Yield 43 hl/ha grape grenache (65%) syrah (20%) mourvedre (10%) some others with carignan (5%). Soil / terroir / climat pebble stones on clay stone calcareous on clay sandy. More from southern rho;ne valley. Altitude 150m to 250m. Temperature 14 5°c (58°f). Rainfall 700 mm. Sunshine 2750 hours. Pruning short prune : gobelet and cordon de royat harvest by hand and machine. September starting with grenache than syrah carignan and mourvedre. Winemaking & ageing long and traditional maceration: 2 weeks with grenache and 3 weeks with syrah and mourvedre. A lot of delestage at the beginning of fermentation. Fermentation with indigenous yeast. Controlled