Estate
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Reading limestone with your feet
Our four soils, from white chalk at the top of the hill to iron-red clay by the wall, and what each one gives the glass.
Written by
Mathilde Roux
Estate director
Walk up the hill from the cellar door and the ground changes under your feet four times. My grandfather used to say you could tell the parcel with your eyes closed, just by the sound of the path.
Four soils, four wines
The estate covers fourteen hectares, but the soils are what really divide it. Each one has found its own grape over the generations.
From the top down
This is the order in which we walk our visitors through the vines.
white chalk at the top: Craie Haute
limestone scree inside the wall: Clos des Lanternes
marl on the north slope: Coteau Nord
terraces by the valley: Rosé de Pierre
When we pour the wines side by side at the end of a visit, guests often find the path again in the glass. That is the whole idea of the estate.
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