CHATEAU JUVENAL

The domain Castle Juvenal: an exceptional terroir? 2001 Anne-Marie and Bernard Forestier redeem the castle and its domain, maintained for several years by the Alban family (Jean-Claude, Mireille and Sebastian). Until 2011, the wine is made in the cellar Balma Venitia, which sells a single vintage, red, Château Juvenal, winning several awards in the Guide Hachette. This organization is held until 2011. That year, Anne-Marie Bernard and Sébastien Forest Alban associate, pool their land and build the cellars of Chateau Juvenal. Sébastien vinifies the first castle in September 2011, under the direction of Philippe Cambie, named best winemaker of the year 2010 by Robert Parker. The local area is excellent: placed on the southern foothills of Graveyron, small hill in Provencal Venaissin, soil, slope, is a clay-limestone gravel enjoying maximum sunshine. Plantations, size, maintenance, harvesting is conducted by Sebastian and his team in the greatest respect for nature: we resolutely practicing organic farming, with a total grass cover since 2009. The plantations are preparing 2 to 5 years in advance, using analyzes of land, plowing, advice, choice of plans, clones ...; they are made for 50 years or more. And because each piece is a country, we choose for each of them the optimal harvest date because the flavor of the fruit is the optimum when the berries are fully ripe. Harvesting is done by hand, with skilled pickers, which retain only the ripe bunches and healthy (sorting in the vineyard). ranges: Our ranges are from fragmentary selection:     The Ribes vallat so named because the plots are distributed on the slopes (the "ribes" in Provençal) bordering the gap (the "vallat" in Provençal) that runs through the area, linking the lands of two families. In the spring, like painters settle for prospects and surrounding colors are deep and changeable.     The ribes the vallat have one white, one pink and one red.     The Land of the little man so named because in ancient times, its plots were often visited by a little man, always accompanied by his little black dog. It is rumored that he was walking not there by chance, and that if his dog seemed a little crazy, he knew (and especially!) Find truffles like no other dog in rabassier Venaissin ...     The land of the little man has a single wine: red     Muscat de Beaumes de Venise This sweet wine is made from white grapes "Muscat small grain" highly concentrated floral and fruity aromas, planted on sandy soil on safre, on Beaumes town of Venice, in the neighborhood of flakes. winemaking: For white and rosé wines, the grapes are cooled (10 °) before being pressed directly into the pneumatic press and then transferred in tanks and half hogshead. at the right temperature is maintained for the duration of fermentation. Then, the aging is done on binds thermos-regulated tank and half muid on white, in thermos-regulated tank for rose and musk. For red, the harvest is also cooled (14 °), then fed directly into a thermo-regulated tank with the skins and the grape berries (loaded with anthocyanins and antioxidants). We practice during power cuts fermentation, crushing and pumping to extract color and aromas. When all of the sugars were converted into alcohol, one proceeds to racking, operation for separating the wine must, which will continue to rise in thermos-regulated vats or barrels.