CHATEAU FABAS

To the North-East of Carcassonne, in the central zone of Minervois, soil “Balcons of Aude”, this moyenâgeuse strengthened farm is a winegrowing of only one holding of 158 ha with 58 ha of vines including 45 planted in Minervois. For better including/understanding the specificity of each vintage of Château Fabas, it is necessary to know of it the origins, type of vines and the type of maturing. The Winegrowing is pressed on a decoration of hillocks exposed to full midday, witness of the old relief to the very strong slopes where no culture is possible, only the pines of Alep and the Mediterranean vegetation is clutched on the red grounds of the hills. The vines are spread out over two levels over a reversed relief, the high terraces with the oldest grounds and the low terraces with the youngest grounds. The grounds are argilo-limestones, in the tops, the flint levels on the terraces, and the sandstone on the slopes.
Excite your papillae with this Minervois cuvée Seigneur 2005 which has been born from the complexity of type of vines established, for more than 30 years, on an exposure full southern and controlled to 25 hl/ha with yield. Syrah 60%, prevailing in this vintage, gives in this soil of the very scented grapes. Grenache 40% has a very major rooting which ensures good regularity and maturity to him. A wine of beautiful color, with the cherry notes and undergrowth, with rich and silky tannins at the same time, a wine extremely well matured, powerful, of full mouth. Minervois Seigneur white 2007 (60% of Vermentino, 30% Maccabéo and Roussane, 10% Bourboulenc) is a wine where roundness and distinction, expenses join, aromatic, of a nice long final with this subtle quite characteristic point of citrus fruits and flowers, an elegant and persistent wine, to discover on an escalope of turkey to the cream as on roasted crawfish. For their Minervois Serbolles red, the type of vines are: Grenache noir 50%, Syrah 40%, Carignan 10%. For this vintage, the vines are enherbées a row on two, and the feet weeded under the row. The age of the vines is between 35 and 55 years. The assembly consists of 35% of Carignan, 35% of Grenache and 30% of Grenache noir. Long completely picked off grape wine making, type of vine by type of vine, at controlled temperature, supporting the diffusion of tannins and the extraction of all the intracellular elements contained in the skin of bays. Vinified after one day a cold maceration, before alcoholic fermentation does not begin. the 2005, of robe ruby, is a typified wine, with this point characteristic of spices, undergrowth and strawberry, and this at the same time rich and supple structure, of excellent guard.

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