LE VIN DE BLAISE
Cuvée Marguerite 2021
About the 2019 vintage, the journalist Pierre Guigui had written: “It is serious, far from the gluggings which pass and which are pissed. There is a very nice background, salinity, structure, dense juice but still fresh.”
You could say that about this 2021 vintage, quite typical of the region: a nice dense dark red color, a little more substance in the mouth than in 2018, and varietal aromas well present. We expect a nice aging in bottles.
Technical info (downloadable below):
On this cuvée I am still making plot-based wines:
70% Grenache in goblets planted the year I was born (1967- 55 years old) play with 25% of “young” 37 years old Carignans.
The sandy-clayey soils are partially covered with pebbles once rolled by the river.
The vinification is classic: whole bunches barely crushed,
cement vats, quick blending with a bit of Syrah… Indigenous yeasts of course !
Aged between 6 and 9 months in stainless steel tanks.
Annual production : 3000 bottles. Total SO2 30 mg/l.
Degree : 14% alc.vol. Organic wine. Certified “Vin Methode Nature”. (https://vinmethodenature.org/hot-of-the-press-la-charte-en-anglais/)
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LE GRAND BLANC (avec une chaussure noire) 2024
Bottled in April 2025, I won’t give you the “tasting note”, just taste!
Technical info:
The vines are organic. The vinification, which is so much “better than organic”, uses indigenous yeasts, a little sulfites and that’s it!
For this white cuvée, I’m still using a plot-by-plot approach:
a combination of grenache blanc and gris, clairette rose and blanche, cinsault, bourboulenc, cinsault, chenin and viognier.
Vinification is classic, direct pressing, stainless steel vats, direct blending
Aged 8 months in stainless steel vats.
Annual production: 600 bottles. Total SO2 30 mg/l.
Alcohol content: 12% alc.vol.
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Cuvée Violette 2022
Bottled in May 2023.
Technical info: This cuvée is the first, the original (since 2015).
The grapes (organic) come from the house’s oldest vines (over 60 years old, planted just after the Great Freeze of 1958).
Old gobelets planted with Grenache, Carignan and Cinsault on fairly clayey soil where the grass loves to climb
(it’s hard to work).
As for vinification, it’s “better than organic”, at “vin méthode nature, less than 30 mg/l sulfites”.
Direct blending in stainless steel vats at the ideal moment of ripeness between the three grape varieties (which are used to living together)
Aged between 8 and 9 months in stainless steel vats.
Annual production: 1820 bottles. Total SO2 18 mg/l.
Alcohol level: 13.5% alc.vol
LE CINSAULT DE BLAISE
Cuvée Pur Cinsault 2023
100% Cinsault.
Bottling end of March 2024…
925 bottles. SO2 total 27 mg/l.
Degree : 12 % alc.vol
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Cuvée Pet'Nat' 2022
A naturally sparkling wine (ancestral method)
vinified with muscat petit grain grapes.
Ancestral method: the fermentation ends in the bottles to capture the bubbles…
A small degree, the aromas of the muscatel, and there you go…
And Blaise likes it a lot!
900 bottles. SO2 30 mg/l
Degree : 12% alc.vol
Le gin de Blaise
Artisanal double distillation in a 1901 alembic
of one of the vintages of the VIN DE BLAISE,
with organic juniper berries
and a note of citrus fruit from our century-old orange trees.
Without additives or filtration, made from organic wine
and natural vinification (“hands-off” approach).
Degree : 42 % alc.vol
Le Spritz de Blaise
Artisanal distillation in a 1901 alembic of a cuvée of the VIN DE BLAISE,
macerated with fruits from our century-old orange trees.
For a large volume of Spritz de Blaise add a small volume of natural sparkling wine or Prosecco for acidity, or just a dash of sparkling water and an orange slice for decoration!
Without additives or filtration, made from organic wine
and natural vinification (“hands-off” approach).
Degree : 18 % alc.vol / 50 cl