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The vineyard
Eléonore de Sabran and her companion Jean-Michel Palot, filled by the spirit of the soil and the history of Lansac, have achieved for about 10 years great work to preserve and value the potential of their vines with biodiversity and natural.
Year after year, adding new grape varieties, they make wines that take their strengths and characters from rigorous and passionate labour.
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Quality and typical products thanks to respect of the environment
The Domaine de Lansac's vineyard stretches over 40 hectares between the Rhone river and the Alpilles mountains, on sandy and muddy soils.
Taking advantage of a very long wine-making tradition on those soils, Eléonore de Sabran has cultivated with passion since 1996 her vines, which mostly age 40 years or more, some even dating back to 1901!
Thus thanks to the continuing vine labour for 5 generations, the Domaine today has a great number of grape varieties, most of them typical from Provence:
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- Carignan (8,2 ha)
- Alicante (6 ha)
- Aubun (4 ha)
- Cinsault (2 ha)
- Grenache (1,6 ha)
- Macabeu (1 ha)
- Others (4,7 ha)
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15 hectares of these old vines are still planted without grafting them on American stocks, so we have to flood them every three years to struggle against phylloxera.
Indeed, to prevent the proliferation of this parasite that destroyed the French vineyards in 1870, there are only 2 solutions: grafting them on special stocks or flooding them during 40 days in winter. Today, only 2% of the vines in the world are still planted on their original stocks.
In concrete terms, these vines allow us to add a little original note to our wines, which makes them even more personal.
More over did we plant new quality grapes, so as to give our vintages more richness and subtlety:
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- Merlot (4,6 ha)
- Marselan (1,7 ha)
- Caladoc (1,2 ha)
- Chardonnay (3 ha)
- Sauvignon Blanc (2 ha)
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Always searching for the best quality, we willingly produce with low yields: 60 hectolitres of wine per hectare on average, whereas we would be authorized to make 90 hectolitres per hectare. To reduce the yields, we for instance do not weed the vineyard and do not excessively add fertilizers.
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Because we do wish to preserve our soil, we have abided since 1996 to the "Mediterranean Nutrition" charter, a brand of the Agricultural Chamber of Bouches-du-Rhône region. This guarantees that our produces grow under the sun of Provence, that the grapes are cultivated in the respect of the environment and that the wines are elaborated to get high gustative qualities.
So we do limit the use of insecticides and do not treat the grapes systematically.
During winter, the vineyard is weeded out by sheep and in spring we use a combination of traditional and modern tools to replace weeds.
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