Should we just rely on luck?
VdF 2022 Rosé from Ardéche.
Cinsault, Chardonnay, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Noir, Syrah and Merlot – 10,25% alc. 75cl. Les Raisins de Domaine du Mazel à Valvignères.
Direct press of all the grapes. The main part of the grapes was pressed slowly in a vertical press and the rest was pressed in a mechanic press. All juice was blended during the fermentation – A fermentation that stopped when the wine had 30 grams of sugar left. Therefore, it is a rosé with a little bit of sweetness. The 30 grams of sugar are still there, so are the carbonic gas from the fermentation. It adds a little fizz to the wine and for that reason it is bottled with crown cap.
Hold me closer
VdF 2022 Blanc from Ardèche.
Sauvignon Blanc (45%) & Chardonnay (40%) & Marsanne de 2021 (15%) – 13,25% alc. 75cl.
Les Raisins de Domaine du Mazel à Valvignères
This is our first vinification in our old wooden foudre, that we got from Alsace. The Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay was pressed for 4 days and when the fermentation was working well it was blended with some Marsanne from 2021. The following fermentation took place during winter and finished slowly in the early spring. The combination of the Ardèche grapes and the Alsace Foudre, have given a unique expression. Rich in fruit, with an almost northern-style acidity.
Bad lighting Call you later
VdF 2021 Rouge from Ardèche.
100 % Merlot – 14,5% alc. 75cl. Les Raisins de Domaine du Mazel à Valvignères
90% direct press from Merlot and another 10% of grapes destemmed. The destemmed grapes were left to macerate in the juice for about a month. The first year the wine was in a fibre cuve, in the spring of 2022, we made a soutirage and transferred the wine to Demi-muid. Here it finished the fermentation and got rid of both reduction and mouse. Now it’s a light red, in the style of the Ploussard that we are all dreaming of.
Once I had a choice of being better
VdF 2021 blanc from Ardèche.
Chardonnay & Sauvignon Blanc – 13,75% alc. 75cl.
Les Raisins de AFS&ABB & Mazel à Valvignères.
Here’s a wine we wanted to bottle already in 2022, but we decided to give it another year in barriques. It was finally bottled in the end of August 2023. Time did it well. It gave the wine a slimmer fruit, made the reduction go away and gave it a yeasty character similar to some young sakes. We really like it! 40 % Chardonnay 60% Sauvignon Blanc, all directly pressed together in an old vertically wooden press for 4 days. From the press directly into barriques for 2 years. No soutirage or topping up.
C’était bien hier soir? Bah.. tu sais..
VdF 2020 Rosé from Ardèche and Alsace.
Cabernet Sauvignon & Gewûrztraminer.15% alc. – 50cl. Les Raisins de Domaine du Mazel à Valvignères & de la famille Bannwarth à Obermorschwihr
A 50/50 blend of Gewürztraminer and Cabernet Sauvignon, both direct pressed. Blended after the harvest in Alsace and directly filled in barriques. The fermentation and aging that brought oxidation ,has taken place in the same barriques for 3 years, without soutirage or topping up.
Les Vignes Des Enfants 2020
VdF 2020 Rouge from Ardèche.
Petit Sirah – 12,75% alc. – 75cl.
Les Raisins de AFS&ABB à Valvignères
100% Petite Sirah/Serinne from our small parcel called Les Vignes des Enfants. 15 days of maceration of destemmed grapes took place in a fibre cuve. After décuvage the wine was pressed for 2 days. The following fermentation and aging ftook place in old barriques for 3 years. No soutirage, topped up one time after one year in barriques.
Les Vignes Des Enfants 2019
VdF 2019 Rouge from Ardèche.
Petit Sirah – 14,5% alc. – 75cl.
Les Raisins de AFS&ABB à Valvignères
100% Petite Sirah/Serinne. All grapes are destemmed and macerated for 10 days in a fibre cuve. After décuvage we pressed the grapes for 3 days. Afterwards the fermenting juice went into barriques we had bought the same year. Here the wine fermented during winter and stayed another for 4 years until bottling in august 2023. No soutirage, topping up one time after two years in barriques.
C’est dans les yeux qu’on le voit
VdF 2019 Rouge from Ardèche.
Grenache Noir & Chardonnay – 15,5% alc. – 50cl.
Les Raisins de AFS&ABB & Domaine du Mazel à Valvignères
A wine that are very special to us – but also special in general. In 2019 we wanted to make a white wine of Chardonnay, but the white juice didn’t please us, so we added first a white juice from a direct press of Grenache Noir, which helped. But it didn’t really give the wine what we wanted; therefore, we made a discission to add also the rosé juice and a small portion of destemmed grapes of Grenache Noir. The grapes macerated in the juice for a little more than 6 weeks. From here the wine went into to Demi-Muid until it was bottled in august 2023. No topping up, no soutirage. It has a hint of oxidation, still 35 grammes of unfermented sugars from the grapes. So, a red wine with tannins as light as a rosé and another character, then what we normally make. Richer in both structure, sweetness and flavours in general – and oxidative.
Comme un Double-Vitrage
VdF 2020 Rosé from Alsace.
Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Sylvaner & Muscat – 15% alc. – 50cl. Les Raisins de la famille Bannwarth à Obermorschwihr
A harvest blend of grapes from Bannwarth in Alsace. All the grapes where destemmed and left to macerate for 4-5 days, pressed, and followed by nearly a year of fermentation outside in fibre tank. After soutirage in the spring, the wine spent another 2 years in barrique, before it was bottled in April 2023. A rosé, but with tannins like a very light red, floral flavors from muscat and as always, in our wines from Alsace oxidation. In this wine the oxidation is lighter than what you’ll experience in our white from Alsace.
I was born in a small town
VdF 2019 Blanc from Alsace.
Pinot Gris – 13,75% alc. – 50cl. Les Raisins de la famille Bannwarth à Obermorschwihr
Maceration for 2-3 days, but not at all enough to extract neither colour or tannins or any other typical orange-wine-flavours, but enough to extract a little and very distinct saltiness. The 4 years in barrique, without topping has left the wine oxidative.
Parfois je monte à l’étage et je me sens un peu perdu
VdF 2018 Blanc from Alsace.
Pinot Noir – 13,5% alc. – 50cl. Les Raisins de la famille Bannwarth à Obermorschwihr.
An over-night direct press of Pinot Noir. Fermentation outside for about 6 months, then in barriques for another 4 ½ years. We love this wine. The oxidation is just there, but without being too much – so light, that it’s still gives space to many other characteristic Pinot Noir- flavours and beautiful acidity.