Vinified in a variety of containers that add even more complexity to the cuvée: concrete vats, half muids for several wines.
No sulphiting at the start of the harvest and selected indigenous yeasts. Malolactic fermentation varies according to container. Batonnage (stirring of the lees) during ageing.
The grapes for this cuvée come from very stony soil, made up of river alluvium from the Castagniccia schist massif. Our vines are deliberately not irrigated, out of respect for the terroir (the vine is a dry crop) and out of respect for an increasingly scarce resource for which the vine is not a priority: water.
This cuvée is made from a rare old Corsican grape variety (a few dozen hectares in Corsica). It completes the ‘CHIOSU FORNELLI’ collection of old indigenous grape varieties grown on the estate. This wine is presented as a ‘Vin de France’.
Additional information: 2400 bottles produced