Clos de l'Anhel
Le Clos de l'Anhel is Sophie's estate, an artisan winemaker in Montlaur, in the Corbières, in Occitanie. After traveling across the South making wine for others, she settled on this land in 2000, at the foot of the Alaric massif. She describes herself as a winemaker “from zero generations”: her estate is the result of a personal choice and a quest for gentle, virtuous coexistence with the place.
The vines occupy limestone hillsides rising to three hundred meters, wild and rugged, swept by the Cers, alongside the garrigue and its plant, animal, and mineral world. The soil is clay-limestone, under a Mediterranean climate.
From the outset, organic farming became the obvious approach: protecting the health of customers, fauna, and flora, and being able to tell her children that they can eat the grapes, but also the blackberries, wild cherries, and wild leeks that border the vineyard. The wines are certified organic. The goal is active biodiversity: around two hundred trees have been planted around the vines, along with nest boxes for tits and bats.
Twenty years later, she is adapting to the climate by planting suitable grape varieties, such as Carignan noir, Carignan blanc, and Cinsault, and by replanting trees.
The wines have evolved, but some historic cuvées have kept their names: Le Lolo de l'Anhel, a nod to “drinking as a baby drinks its milk,” is a small cuvée made from press wines, fruity, based on Carignan. Les Terrassettes evoke the place, and Les Dimanches have a festive character. The range also includes Page Blanche and L'Envie. A fire ravaged the estate on August 5, but the constant remains: doing things seriously, without taking oneself too seriously. Le Lolo is born from gravelly soils of the Lower Paleocene, on terraces of the Lagrasse terroir, exposed to the northwest. The estate is twenty-five minutes from Carcassonne.
Details gathered from the estate's website and public sources, for information only.
Wines
Details gathered from the estate's website and technical sheets, in French, for information only.
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