Description
Anne Paillet’s friend Christophe Beau, a biodynamic producer in Coteaux du Languedoc, offered her a partnership on his 6ha estate, renting her 2.5 ha of his land. In 2011 Autour de l’Anne was created, with the help of Christophe and his son Victor.
Anne hand-harvests the grapes and fermentation occurs naturally with wild yeasts in concrete tank without any SO2. The particularity of the estate is that at the end of fermentation, Anne takes the wine to the Loire to finish its aging at her husband Gregory Leclerc’swinery .
Anne told us that the style of her wines tends to be more similar to wines from the Loire Valley than the Languedoc. She avoids heaviness and high alcohol level, preferring lighter, terroir-expressive wines.
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Grape: Cinsault
Vineyard Size: 1 hectare
Soil: limestone, red clay
Average Age of Vines: 20 years
Farming: biodynamic
Harvest: by hand
Winemaking: 50% destemmed grapes, 50% whole cluster, 12 day semi-carbonic maceration in concrete
Aging: 12 months in concrete tanks
Fining: none
Filtration: none
Added S02: none
