Domaine Danjou Banessy - La Truffière 2017
Domaine Danjou-Banessy is located in the town of Espira de l'Agly, north of the city of Perpignan in the Pyrenees Orientales. Benoît Danjou and his brother Sébastien inherited from their grandfather this old vineyard which was used for the production of Rivesaltes. Today, they manage around fifteen hectares of parceled vines, aged 15 to 120 years. The vineyard is made up of a wide variety of soils (shale, sandstone, clay-limestone, quartz, pure clay, sand and silt), which requires plot work on different islets. Each cuvée produced represents a plot, a soil, a locality, a way of working. Benoît and Sébastien practice biodynamic techniques to enrich the soil.
La Truffière is a blend of Grenache Noir, Mourvèdre and Carignan Noir (aged 60 to 80 years-old), grown on schist marl with limestone subsoil and surrounded by truffle soil in the Terres Noires area in Espira de l'Agly. The whole harvest is crushed, then infused and the alcoholic fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts. Aging lasts 20 months in barrels. The wine is bottled by gravity in the lunar phase and is not yeasted, not acidified, not chaptalized, not fined and not filtered.
Grape varieties: Grenache Noir, Mourvèdre, Carignan Noir