Terrasses du Larzac AOP – Mas des Agrunelles – L’Indigène – red

15,90 €

L’Indigene is a blend of Syrah, Grenache and Carignan. On the nose, it is fleshy, with notes of ripe black berries and heather. It has a distinctive fleshy texture reminiscent of salami, with garrigue herbs and cracked pepper. On the palate, it is full-bodied, textured and robust, with solid acidity and supple tannins. The fruity notes of blackberry, raspberry and black cherry are concentrated and juicy without being overripe. The earthy notes of the nose carry through and blend with savoury notes of lavender, rosemary and white pepper.

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2022 vintage technical sheet: click here
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Stéphanie and Frédéric

A meeting made of wine
Studies in wine and oenology brought Stéphanie and Frédéric together in Montpellier in 1999.
The training that followed, alongside winegrowers committed to biodynamic farming such as Didier Barral and Olivier Jullien, led them to join their passions in order to go further.
Driven by conviction and experimentation, they quickly turned to organic and then biodynamic farming.
Farming that respects the land and winemaking without intervention or oenological products allow them to produce lively, subtle wines: expressive wines described as living, natural.

The estate

Another important choice was to settle in this particular geographical area. If Frédéric settled precisely there, it was not by chance, but rather out of a desire to make things complicated… or at least, not to do as everyone else does!​

Rather than joining an already recognised AOC, whether Pic St Loup or neighbouring Aniane, he preferred this location on the Terrasses du Larzac, because it has a meteorological singularity: located north of curve F on the bioclimate diagram (which represents the cool zone), this terroir has only between 1,350 and 1,450 hours above 10°C on the Winkler scale, whereas most well-known sites in Languedoc have longer periods of sunshine, with recorded temperatures ranging from temperate to mild.

While some see it as a handicap, making it an area reputed to be difficult to farm and shunned by winegrowers thirsty for high yields, Stéphanie and Frédéric, on the contrary, saw it as a challenge, with an entirely different appeal. For adding to this a rich diversity of soils and particular attention to winemaking processes broadens the field of possibilities, which was just waiting to be showcased, a task Stéphanie and Frédéric set about.​

The original idea: to vinify each plot in its own dedicated vat, in order to bring out its terroir, its immediate surroundings and this climate, rather than working solely with the grape variety.

This gives their wines an aromatic framework shaped by the plot rather than by the grape variety.

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Weight 1.4 kg
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