*New* 27 Collioure AC 2004 Cosprons Levants
Domaine du Mas Blanc

Grape:60% Syrah, 30% Mourvèdre, 10% Grenache (13% alc.)

Soft, spicy, blackberry fruit with a gamey note typical of mourvèdre make this attractive wine. The iron imbued schist topsoil and mother rock also leave their mineral impression on the wine. For drinking now to 2013.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Jean-Michel Parcé
Location:	Banyuls-sur-Mer (back country)
Size of domaine:	20 hectares
Grape:	60% Syrah, 30% Mourvèdre, 10% Grenache – 32 yr old vines. Selection massale from Tempier, Beaucastel on R100 rootstock.
Terroir:	Alluvial schists, with sandy-silty outbreaks on 20% slopes. Very thin soil only 40 cm deep.
Viticulture:	30 hectos per hectare. Gobelet formation. No debudding, no vendanges en vert. Ploughed where possible, otherwise herbicide used. Uses 3 treatments of dried sulpur and fungicide per year. 2 treatments per year of insecticide are needed. Manual harvest.
Vinification:	Destalked 100%. Killer yeast for the end of fermentation. Temp 23°-32°. Use pigeage twice a date for 15 days. Grapes vinified separately in stainless steel cuve. 2 week cuvaison. Malos in cuve and transferred in Jan/Feb into 1, 2, 3, 4, year old barrels from Château Margaux, when wine is assembled. Aged for 1 year (racked once). No fining, no filtration, bottled using their own equipment.
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exc vat: £13.29