“Les Silica” is soils composed of quartz and flint stone over a chalk and clay base.es Cailloutis is for the most part a Redzina fine fragmented chalk stones mixed with a light friable clay over a chalk bed rock.

The general game plan is to keep the vineyard vigour moderately high and to pick early based entirely on fruit flavour.
The clone chosen for the Cabernet Sauvignon is 13 on 420a rootstocks.
High-density plantations 4700 vines par hectare at 1,0x1,90m for the competition aspect and secondly to reduce the number of buds/vine. Canopy management is simple with no leaf plucking; just two light summer trims 20 cm wider than normal to keep the microclimate cooler.

Here the winemaking has adapted to the style demanded by the market by reducing the colour of very intensely coloured grapes. The fruit is machine harvested with PMS on the machine. After pressing all the juice out of some Sauvignon Blanc grapes, we left the dry skins in the press and then pressed the Cabernet Sauvignon trough the dry skins of the white grapes. Free run and initial pressings to 0,2 bar are kept separate and the cut-off is decided on the oxidation. Extended cold settling at 3- 5° C for 7 to 21 days depending on the native yeast activity. The must is fermented using selected EC118 PDM yeast, initially at about 18°C, later, to slow the fermentation rate the must is cooled down to 7°C. At 0,5°Bé bentonite is added and the ferment goes to term. The wine is cold stabilised by the contact process, medium earth filter, blended, adjusted to 22 mg/L free SO2 and bottled.

The colour is Rosé light pink, with a bouquet of red berry fruit and some sometimes candy floss, a good easy drinking pallet.

Bar-B-Q’s, Blue Cheese, Pasta, eating out side in summer and with Saucisson

One to five years maxi