La Carbonelle 2022
Emblematic wine from Catherine Bernard who vinifies her sun-filled red grapes with the heart of a white wine lover, bringing lift and elegance. 2022 was an unusual year, marked by the heatwave and unexpected rain at harvest time, so she vinified her Mourvèdre, Marselan, Grenache and Cinsaut in the style of a claret (dark rosé)
After de-stemming the grapes, she pressed half of the them and macerated the other half for a short time before aging in foudres and barrels for one year. The result is rich and spicy magic carpet…flying through midnight air.
12.5°
Emblematic wine from Catherine Bernard who vinifies her sun-filled red grapes with the heart of a white wine lover, bringing lift and elegance. 2022 was an unusual year, marked by the heatwave and unexpected rain at harvest time, so she vinified her Mourvèdre, Marselan, Grenache and Cinsaut in the style of a claret (dark rosé)
After de-stemming the grapes, she pressed half of the them and macerated the other half for a short time before aging in foudres and barrels for one year. The result is rich and spicy magic carpet…flying through midnight air.
12.5°
Emblematic wine from Catherine Bernard who vinifies her sun-filled red grapes with the heart of a white wine lover, bringing lift and elegance. 2022 was an unusual year, marked by the heatwave and unexpected rain at harvest time, so she vinified her Mourvèdre, Marselan, Grenache and Cinsaut in the style of a claret (dark rosé)
After de-stemming the grapes, she pressed half of the them and macerated the other half for a short time before aging in foudres and barrels for one year. The result is rich and spicy magic carpet…flying through midnight air.
12.5°
Catherine was born in Nantes in 1963 and was a journalist at La Tribune and Libération for 20 years. In 2004, with a diploma in viticulture and oenology in hand, she moved to the Languedoc to become a winemaker. While growing vines and making wine, she continued to write. In 2011, she published Dans les Vignes with Editions du Rouergue, followed by Recettes de Ma Vigne in 2013 and Une Place sur Terre in 2018. In 2019, she published Ma Part des Anges in 2019 and in 2024 Lambrusque with Les Ateliers d'Argol
With her son Nicolas, she crafts fine, balanced, rhythmical reflections of an ancient terroir near Sommières: pure expressions of a place between the wild and the cultivated that she calls La Carbonnelle. After losing a good part of her grapes two years on the run due to extreme heat and drought, she decided to uproot an entire plot of vines and create an experimental wine garden or “vineyard orchard”. Here, she has planted vines next to saplings and local aromatic plants to “re-weave the links, tendril by tendril”.
