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Skin by Domaine des Tourelles

  • Producer: Domaine des Tourelles 
  • Winemaker: Faouzi Issa 
  • Country of Origin: Lebanon 
  • Region of Origin: Northern Lebanon, Bsharreh mountains 
  • Style: Still dry Orange 
  • Grape varieties: 100%Merweh 
  • Body: Medium 
  • Vintage: 2020 
  • ABV: 11% 
  • Drinking window: 2023-2030
  • Closure Type: Cork

 

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Vineyard Information

– Location: Bsharreh mountains (at the foothills of the millenial cedars)

– Soil: Clay and limestone

– Altitude: 1400m

– Trellising System: bush vines

– Year the vines were planted: first half of the 19th century

– Agricultural method: Organic non-certified

 

Winemaking process

– Harvest: October

– 100% manually with intensive selection in 20kg boxes. Several rounds are needed to obtain perfect ripeness.

– Fermentation vessel: 19th century made Amphoras

– Fermented with indigenous yeasts, then followed by malolactic fermentation

– Skin Contact: 7 days

– Ageing apparatus: Amphora