THE VAT ROOM
Consisting of thirty stainless-steel vats, the vinification room is located in the former water storage facility of the Gallo-Roman mill.
Two cold water springs run under the vat room’s stone floor providing natural cooling, and ensuring that alcoholic fermentation takes place very slowly, over 8 to 10 days. It is this slowness that enables complex flavours to develop.
The property’s vats are temperature-controlled, which provide static, uniform cooling of the vats.
We installed a new pneumatic press in the autumn of 2016. This enables excellent extraction of the juices still in the skins, without extracting any of the greenness or bitterness of the seeds, which remain intact.