Second Souffle, 2017

By Les Equilibristes

Appellation: Vin de Pays
Region: Languedoc
Country: France

Colour: White
Grape Varieties: Carignan Blanc

Soil type: Clay, Limestone
Vessel type: Wood - Old oak, Stainless Steel

Unfined.
Unfiltered.

Notes on additives, aids & processing used:

Organic/Biodynamic/Equivalent
Total Sulphites: 55 mg/L
This wine is fermented spontaneously.
Other Information:Vine / Average age of 60 years old, short pruning (en éventail), tillage, use of manure for the past 30 years, no insecticides Wine / night harvest, cold settling, ageing on lees for 3 months, early bottling to preserve the CO2 Spirit/ Saving an old vine of white Carignan with low yield from deplanting. the batch was vinified separately to eventually reveal its high potential

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“Les Equilibristes” (the “Tightrope Walkers”) aim to shake up winemakers willing to craft different wines.
By freeing them from their habits and practices, they intend to shape together a vibrant and unique wine.
Their set of golden rules are the following: indigenous grape varieties, organic winemaking, tillage, indigenous yeasts, minimal sulphur rates.

10 vintages, 7 winemakers, 18 grape varieties, 5 regions (Anjou, Périgord, Languedoc, Corbières, Banyuls).

The 2 Equilibristes:
– François de Monval: “wine merchant”, cellar and restaurant owner in Paris (La Canonnière), wine enthusiast fed every day by its clients.
– Florent Girou: “travelling oenologist”, winemaker in the Perigord Region, wine-maniac, torn between the preservation of the ancient know how and the constant calling into question of some practices.