Château Romanin Les Baux de Provence AOP La Chapelle, red, biodynamic wineamic wine, from € 19.10

Château Romanin, Les Baux de Provence AOP, La Chapelle, red, biodynamic wine, 2020, from € 19.10

The Château Romanin Les Baux de Provence AOP La Chapelle wine is produced according to the Demeter guidelines, which, with its enchantingly fruity scent, convinces with its pronounced fruity and full-bodied taste.

Silver medal awarded by DECANTER for the vintage 2020

Biodynamic wine - profile  

• Color: deep, rich, brilliant purple with shiny violet reflections
• Nose: Its seductive scents of ripe wild strawberries and blackcurrants are the perfect accompaniment to a very tasty wine. The spicy herb fragrance from the wild natural garden of Provence makes our mouth water.
• Mouth: It is a successful cuvee, which is quite exceptional in this price range. A biodynamically produced red wine with rich aromas and a complex variety of flavors with fruitfulness and harmonic nature.
• Drinking recommendation: enjoy this La Chapelle de Romanin organic wine with a temperature of 14 to 16 ° C already in the year after harvest or within 4-5 years from vintage indication.

Biodynamic wine - processing, Château Romanin, La Chapelle de Romanin

Especially the care of the vines in the vineyard, we owe the emergence of this paradisiacal wine. It begins with the cutting of the vines in the winter, in spring the shoots must be tied to the wires, during the vegetation phase the shoots grow extremely fast and must be thinned out several times. A few weeks before the harvest leaves are removed above the grapes so that they can still capture every ray of sunshine. The highlight of a wine year is the vintage. It starts when the most important and desired parameters "sugar, acidity and PH value" are reached. Of course, at the Château Romanin it is done by hand. By the way, during the grape picking by hand every single grape can be controlled and, if necessary, sorted out.

Experienced winemakers know that it is worthwhile to treat the vines in the vineyards well. Because the better the grapes, the higher the quality of an organic wine. In addition, during the wine processing it can be dispensed on many technical steps and other auxiliaries and additives. With this approach you get very close to the term "natural wine".  A term, which  is not exactly defined.

In any case, only a small amount of sulfur is added to this biodynamic wine, which prevents the oxidation of important flavor-enhancing ingredients in the wine and the enjoyment value is retained longer. Based on many years of experience in the tasting of natural wines or natural wines, we consider these terms more as a natural wines marketing tool than a promise of enjoyment. Moreover, it would be a shame if winegrowers worked hard for a whole year in the vineyard and end up presenting flawed and often inedible wines. That's why it's so easy here at the Château Romanin to make the best possible organic/biodynamic wines: The stems and panicles are separated from the berries, then slightly squeezed and fermented spontaneously in stainless steel tanks without the addition of foreign yeasts. Thereafter, the wine is transferred to another stainless steel tank. In the process, the pomace (berry skins) is left behind. Now the malolactic fermentation begins, as is the case with all red wines, converting the aggressive malic acid into the milder lactic acid. After several months of maturation, this wine produced according to the Demeter guidelines is only filtered, very little sulfur is added shortly before bottling.

The biodynamic wine at a glance

• Type: Red wine
• Area of production: Les Baux de Provence, south of Saint Remy de Provence
• Producer: Château Romanin
• Grape varieties: 55 % Syrah, 20 % Grenache, 17 % Mourvedre, 8 % Cabernet Sauvignon.
• Aging: Stainless steel tank
• Bottling: Château Romanin
• Quantity: 0.75 l
• Vintage: 2020
• Tasting Tip by 2027
• Alkohol: 13.5 % vol.
• Allergens Contains sulfites
• Organic certified FR-BIO-01
• We source this wine directly from the Château Romanin 12310 Saint Remy de Provence, France

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