Anecdotes about the domain
To be a winemaker, for me, is to accomplish all the tasks of the vineyard. From planting to selling the product, this is what I do because I have a vineyard on a human scale. From the beginning, I have put in place a quality approach and processes where the words traceability and guaranteed origin have their full meaning. I bet on small yields which give concentrated harvests in ripe fruits, worthy of the best AOC. We practice manual harvesting with sorting on the vine, destemming upon arrival at the winery and separate vinification by grape variety.
The domain's short story
Fell in when I was a kid. Indeed at the age of 4 years I confused the bottle with a bottle of wine left on the table! This old mill is at the end of a path where the wheels no longer turn, but the flow of water could remind us of their use. The mill is located in the middle of a green estate. You can smell daffodils in spring or late summer hay.
The winemaker's pride
This family farm was bought in 2003 by Didier Labat with his wife and their two daughters. With the rights granted as young farmers, Didier planted, from 2003 to 2007, four hectares of noble grape varieties, 2 hectares of merlot, one of cabernet franc, one of cabernet sauvignon and a few acres of white sauvignon and petit manseng. The land of the vineyard lends itself particularly to these grape varieties, especially the clay-limestone with a little sand. The vineyard is of a human size, is a family exploitation as the farmers like them, and is classified in IGP (protected geographical identification), wine of country of Agenais.
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