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Les Vins du Siècle est un grand site fédérateur, bilingue et mondial. Dans toute la France, « triés sur le volet », les meilleurs producteurs (la très grande majorité ayant l’exclusivité de leur appellation) sont retenus pour la typicité des vins, leur rapport qualité-prix-plaisir, l'expression de leur terroir et leur passion de vignerons.

Pas de vins à la mode, surcôtés ou de "jus de bois" dans Les Vins du Siècle. La typicité d’un vin, ce n’est rien d’autre que l’association d’un sol, d’un micro-climat, d’une plante et d’un homme. On ne peut aimer un vin qu’en appréciant celui qui le fait. Derrière une étiquette, il y a un viticulteur (ou une viticultrice) et c’est fondamental de ne pas les dissocier. Bien sûr, les sols ont une influence considérable et, dans chaque territoire, dans chaque commune, le vigneron fait la différence avec son voisin.

Il ne s’agit donc pas seulement de faire du bon vin, ce que tout le monde peut faire, mais surtout d’élever de vrais vins racés, reconnaissables entre mille, qui sentent ce “fumé” bourguignon, déploient ce “velours” libournais, ces senteurs alsaciennes, cette “chair” en Médoc ou à Châteauneuf, cette “minéralité” à Pouilly ou à Meursault, cette fraîcheur en Champagne comme dans nos grands liquoreux.

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LES CELLIERS DES VIGNERONS

COTES-DE-PROVENCE

Before last cooperative wine cave in the department of Var. The vineyard covers 440 ha of which 360 produce of Côtes-de-Provence. Taste their red Côtes-de-Provence rouge La Soyeuse de Ramatuelle 2010, maturing in oak barrel, coloured, with the complex notes of blackberry and humus, with ripe tannins and very quite well-balanced, of powerful and fleshy mouth, beautiful evolution. Very nice Soyeuse de Ramatuelle rosé 2011, all in subtlety, fond of delicacies and supple, very succeeded, where intermingle with the persistent notes of ripe fruits and flowers. The blanc 2010 is of pale and brilliant robe, with the intense and delicate fresh fruit and citrus fruits nose, all in suppleness.

DOMAINE ALINE ET REMY SIMON

VINS ROUGES DE SAINT-HIPPOLYTE

After the resumption of an ancestral family vineyard and with much of determination and will, the marketing of our production began during the years 1990. Most of our vines are at the foot of the majestic Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg. With 6 hectares of vines and in spite of the youth of the house, we produce mainly wines with High Expression and we align each year a score of vintages thanks to a keen work and to neat completions. Among a great number of references, let us quote inter alia the range of the Old Vines, the whole of our wines of soil like the BURGREBEN or SILBERGRUB without forgetting our famous “ROUGE DE SAINT-HIPPOLYTE”. In 2003, we celebrated the birth of our last cuvée: “HARMONIE”, a table wine which is declined in white or rosy according to mood. The typicity and the quality of our vintages are regularly rewarded in various competitions and re-examined: Guide hachette, Prix d’Excellence , medals…

CHATEAU TOULOUZE

GRAVES DE VAYRES

The grounds of the Château Toulouze depended on a vast land unit, property of the Château de Vayres. This last built in XIIIème century with the site of a Gallo-Roman “oppidum” which prevails the Dordogne, was one of the residences of the king Henri IV. Property in its current form, 27 ha of only one holding, buildings and vineyard, corresponds to what remains of a vast domain wine and maturing of more than 70 ha, built with delicate of the XVIIIème century, following the French revolution and dismantled gradually by the play of the successions. The vineyard completely restructured in 1986, starts to express the rise to power of the expression of the soil. That gives wines to the flesh fuller, generous, fruity but with impressed elegant tannins of smoothnesses. Well-balanced and harmonious wines, that one can taste young people after a broad ventilation out of carafe, but who offer according to the vintages an excellent potential of guard, on average from 10 to 15 years. Discover this Graves de Vayres Grande cuvée 2009 (majority Merlot, 20% of Cabernets, manual and late grape harvest to seek maturity, maturing 12 months into 1/2 muids of oak, bottled 18 months after the grape harvest, soft filtration), with these notes characteristic and very persistent of currant, smoked and spices, with dense and ripe tannins at the same time, a full wine of mouth, excellent guard. Beautiful 2008, robust, quite fleshy, with currant and plum scents, fleshy, with tasty tannins, which releases in mouth of the connotations of black cherry and humus, of guard.

CHATEAU SAINT-MARTIN-DES-CHAMPS

SAINT-CHINIAN

Located in the middle of Languedoc at a few kilometers of Mer the Mediterranean and on the first slopes of the Cevennes, Château Saint Martin of Champs, was built in XVIIe century near Hermitage of VIIe century, where halt the pilgrims made who went to Saint-Jacques de Compostelle. The splendid buildings are integrated since their origin in the vineyard. Witnesses of the history, the immense stables and the tanks with wines built out of stone of prunes, go back to 1752 and are always in services in the wine storehouses. The owners, Pierre and Michel Birot, are vine growers of father as son since 1675. They cultivate in a way reasoned and with love, their vineyard of 98 ha, established on grounds argilo-limestones ideally southern talks full. They mature with passion and rigor these great wines, thus satisfying the love which they carry to their trade. One gives pleasure with this Saint-Chinian cuvée Camille rosé 2011, Camille being the first name of the daughter of Pierre, always in the leading bunch of the best rosé wines of the area, a full wine stops some, fresh, quite well-balanced, with aromas of currant and spices, of a beautiful persistence. Remarkable Saint-Chinian rouge Les Terrasses de Fontenille 2006 (prevailing Syrah and Grenache), all color and out of matter, with the nose of morello cherry and of smoked, with tannins present and ripe at the same time, an intense wine which mixes powerfull and fullness, where prevail the fruits cooked finally. Saint-Chinian Tradition rouge 2009, quite expressive of his schistous soil, is intense with the nose as in mouth, of color cherry steady, with the powerful undergrowth and cooked fruit aromas, very quite well-balanced, with tannins firm and melted at the same time. Very favorite also for rosé Saint-Chinian 2011, resulting from bleeding, matured well 5 months out of tanks on the lees with a frequency of bâtonnages according to tasting, with the notes of apricot and small flowers, all finally, with these nuances of fresh flowers and ripe raspberry. Profit to take time to make the free visit of the wine storehouses with tasting, strolls pedestrian, circuit VTT, exposures of painting… and to benefit from their lists, remarkably located.

DOMAINE DE LA VALERIANE

COTES-DU-RHONE-VILLAGE SIGNARGUES

The Domaine de la Valériane is located at the south of the southernmost Côtes du Rhône, at the borders of Provence and Languedoc, on right bank of the Rhone. This family of vine growers, rooted in this ocher ground, reddened by iron oxide, with the rolled rollers polished by time, cultivates with care and know-how the vine on this soil of exception since 4 generations. Today, Valerie COLLOMB, oenologist will accommodate you in Domaine to make you share her passion of the wine, with her husband Michel COLLOMB itself vine grower owner of the Field of Alzan. This last will also make you discover his production of olive oil. “If you come to us, you will discover a small village vine grower: Domazan with the hollow of a valley where opens out on soft inclined slopes, in a typically southernmost landscape worked by the sun and the mistral. At the crossroads between Avignon, the papal city and the Roman aqueduct of Pont of Gard, you will discover this soil of exception devoted since 2005, by a Côtes du Rhône Village SIGNARGUES. The originality of our Domaine which extends on about forty hectares, lies in the existence of several tens of pieces disseminated on various sectors of the territory of SIGNARGUES. Thus, the variations of grounds and microclimate to the center even of the property, make it possible to produce a whole wine pallet to multiple savors and qualities: Côtes du Rhône white, rosé, red, our vintage Sélection Vieilles Vignes exit of our older pieces of more than 40 years and our Côtes du Rhône Village SIGNARGUES where all the heat and the power of our soil are expressed.