Perséides

– Location: Dhour Zahle

– Soil: Clay and limestone

– Exposure: South

– Area: 9 ha

– Altitude: 1260m

– Trellising System: double Guyot

– Age of vines: 20 years

– Number of vines per hectare: 4000

– Agricultural method: Organic

Winemaking process

– Harvest: mid to late September

– 100% manually with intensive selection in 20kg boxes.

– Whole grapes de-stemmed and crushed, and then put in thermo-regulated stainless steel tanks

– Cold pre-fermentation maceration for about a week, alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts, then followed by malolactic fermentation

– Ageing apparatus: 3 years in a variety of French barrels and casks

Awards

Platinum Gold (top 12 wines from a selection of over 100 wines) at the 2016 Japan Wine Challenge

Ratings

93 Pts. Derek Smedley – Master of Wine