To listen and learn from each vintage and combining vigor, tradition, and modernity is essential for an optimum quality.

Thus, Raphael practices a friendly viticulture based on observation and reflection to adapt his interventions. Preserving our land remains the most noble way to thank her.

« We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children »
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

This proverb is constantly ringing in our minds.

It is a real pleasure to live every day with nature: to observe it, to know it and to understand it.

Raphael defines himself as a craftsman of the vine and wine, representing the French Living Art.

Before being vinified with passion, a Chardonnay is made every day in the vineyard by the particular care given to each vine..

The cultural method at the Domain is carefully considered. It is because he is present throughout the year in his plots, that Raphael can adapt his culture with a method based on observation before any intervention is made to the vine. To have a soil which properly nurtures the wine, you need a soil in activity, breathing. Thus, in the autumn, a deep plowing is designed to help the vine to feed on soil characteristics. No chemical fertilizers are used in the vineyard. An organic amendment is added only in case of failure observed after a soil test.

Always looking for quality, the pruning choice is a technique called “simple flat guyot”, for controlled production. For planting and replacement of the dead plants, Raphael selects qualitative plants with rootstocks adapted to stony soil, rich in limestone.

The vineyard’s protection against diseases and insects is not an automatic system. It is considered and adapted after careful observation of each plot. Since 2019 the domain is HVE certified, level 3. read More

For the harvest, the culmination of the work year, the choice of mechanical harvesting has been chosen for its flexibility in the organization. The machine has the advantage to harvest the grapes from each plot at their optimum maturity.

During the years with multiple heat waves, it allows harvesting during the coolness of the night. Likewise, in rainy years, when the vines ripen quickly, it allows harvesting up to 5 hectares (12 acres) per day.

Winemaking is natural, minimalistic, with very little intervention with the sole objective: the revelation of the Land. The priority is to reveal the nature of the Mâcon wines: its freshness, fruit, flower and mineral with the research of the finesse, aromatic purity and a better balance between fat and liveliness.

Upon arrival of the grapes from the harvest to the winery, a slow and gentle pneumatic pressing is realized for a better extraction. The must is then dredged at a low temperature to clarify the juice, for more or less time depending on the year. Then alcoholic fermentation begins according to vatful, in vats temperature controlled or in a French barrel of oak. This lasts for several weeks during which the yeast (naturally present in the juice) converts the sugars into alcohol. This is followed by malolactic fermentations that allow a softening and stabilization of the wines

Then a withdrawal is made to remove the coarse lees before growing on fine lees. For the wine cask, the stirrings are sometimes made ​​to put the lees in suspension to develop complex aromas.

After tasting, some tanks are selected and assembled for bottling. Bottling is made at the Domain starting in Spring, dates being determined by the lunar calendar. The bottles are then stored in an air conditioned cellar until sold.

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