Cuvée Violette 2020 - Clau de Nell

Cuvée Violette 2020 - Clau de Nell

Anne Claude LEFLAIVE

- Vineyard

Soil: clay and silt soil composed of sandstone and red flint on tuffeau (limestone).

Age: cabernet franc: 45 to 55 years, cabernet sauvignon: 70 years.

Pruning: Cabernet Franc: mixed Guyot.

Cabernet Sauvignon: gobelet

Work: autumn shoeing, spring dehairing, ploughing and natural grassing.

Biodynamic applications, infusions and decoctions of plants. This work is done according to the rhythms of the biodynamic calendar.

Yields: Cabernet franc, about 40 hl/ha. Cabernet Sauvignon, about 35 hl/ha.

Harvesting: by hand in 12 kg boxes, sorting in the vineyard at optimum maturity.

- Vinification

Destemmed harvest, indigenous yeasts, maceration maceration for about thirty days without extraction. Pigeage light punching down, little pumping over, infusion work.

Pressing: gentle and slow in a pneumatic press.

- Ageing 

12 months on fine lees in Burgundy rooms of 5 to 7 wines then 6 months in vats.

Blend: 2/3 Cabernet franc, 1/3 Cabernet sauvignon (in general, but it depends on the year, we years, we look for a balance)

Bottling: on the "fruit" day without filtration or fining

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