Fond Cyprès - 'Premier Jus' - Grenache, Carignan - Languedoc, FR - 2023

Notes from the Winery/Importer

VINTAGE: 2023 REGION: Languedoc, France APPELLATION: Corbières GRAPES: Grenache, Carignan YEASTS: Indigenous MACERATION: Carignan - 2 days whole cluster. FERMENTATION: Carignan added to fermented grenache before pressing AGED FOR: 6 months in stainless steel CLARIFICATION/FILTRATION: Unfiltered/ Unfined FARMING: Biodynamic ALCOHOL CONTENT: 11.5% ADDED SO2: 2g at bottling SOIL: Calcareous, blue marl VINE AGE: 15 years

Notes on the Producer

From the Brigitte Bardot of Corbières and her endearing husband come the wines of Fond Cyprès, a soulful, luscious lineup of Carignan, Syrah, Grenache, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne, Viognier, Muscat, Cinsault and blends thereof. The couple, whose real names are Laetitia Ourliac & Rodolphe Gianesini, is intent on producing wines that express their sultry slice of the Languedoc — specifically, Escales, in the northernmost part of the Corbières AOC. Their domaine begins at the end of a road lined with Cypress trees and extends in either direction across 15ha of lush vegetation, a secret garden of olives, tomatoes, eggplants, wild herbs, and newly-born kittens. We first met Laetitia and Rodolphe in the deep, damp recesses of Cave Ackerman on a February afternoon in the Loire, and even then their wines were singing. But when we pulled up to their home in August and were greeted by bowls of freshly grilled palourdes, mussels, garlic, and parsley cooked in the juice we were about to drink, we understood their wines had made it feel like summer all along.