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03 — The Ground

The Vineyard

Fourteen hectares of limestone and clay on a south-facing slope. Dry-farmed, hand-tended, and read by taste rather than calendar.

Terroir

Limestone, late light,
and a slope that
asks for nothing.

South-facing, hand-tended and dry-farmed. The soil gives little water and great character. We measure ripeness by taste, not by calendar, and let the cool nights write the finish.

Elevation
240 m
Exposure
Due south
Soil
Limestone & clay
Vines
60+ years
Yield
22 hl/ha
Farming
Dry, by hand
Beneath the Rows

Everything the wine knows,
it learned underground.

Topsoil — 0–25 cm

Thin and stony. Drains fast, holds little; the vine is forced to reach.

Clay band — 25–60 cm

The estate's reservoir. A little water, held back for the dry weeks of August.

Marl — 60–110 cm

Soft, calcareous, cool. Where the roots find structure and the wine its line of acidity.

Mother limestone

The bedrock. Sixty-year roots split it for moisture — and bring back the chalk you taste on the finish.

The Growing Year

Four seasons, one long sentence.

Spring

Budbreak

Cover crops turned under; the first green tips watched against late frost. We prune for fewer, better clusters.

Summer

Véraison

Leaves thinned by hand for airflow and light. Dry-farmed, the vine learns thirst — and concentration follows.

Autumn

Harvest

Picked by taste over several passes, in the cool of morning, into small crates carried to the gravity cellar.

Winter

Rest

The wine settles in neutral oak; the slope sleeps under chalk dust and rain. Nothing is rushed back to life.

“A great site is not farmed. It is listened to.”
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From the ground, to the hand.