Around
the "Jasse du Gazan", old sheepfold east of the foothills of Uchaux (village
of Sérignan), are our Cotes du Rhone Villages vineyards. Farmed organically,
the vines are surrounded by live oak and the typical Mediterranean brush,
swept by the Mistral wind in a very typical Provence landscape. The soil
is red-brown, of clay-limestone texture, very rocky, deep and with very
little organic matter.
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Grape
harvest at
the Jasse du Gazan |
The fields are plowed regularity
to air out the earth and thus stimulate the macrobiotic life, and the same
time destroying the plants that compete with the vineyards. The surface
of the soil, very rocky, heats quickly, offering ideal conditions for a
perfect ripening of the grapes.
The frequent plowing also decreases
the evaporation of the earth, by destroying the capillary networks that
are very numerous in dry filtering soils. The vines' roots descend deeply
to soak up the important moist nutrients during the droughts of the hot
summer months. |
