Domaine Sibille
Domaine Sibille is a small family estate practicing organic farming in the heart of the Minervois, in Laure-Minervois, a quiet village of around 1,100 inhabitants, twenty minutes from the medieval city of Carcassonne. In December 2015, the Sibille family took over this old estate, which was fully restored. The investments were substantial, and the estate took off with its first bottling in spring 2017.
The estate basks at the foot of magnificent hillsides bordered by pines, on a superb sandstone terroir, among holm oaks, olive trees and garrigue. The landscape retains the marks of its past: sandstone walls, twenty-two former sandstone quarries in the commune and capitelles, those small stone shelters. Vines were planted here as early as the first century, with the first traces in the year 70.
The estate produces AOP Minervois and IGP Pays d'Oc wines, half of them red, with Syrah, Marselan and Minervois, and nearly half white, with Chardonnay, Viognier and the Les P'tites Terrasses cuvée. The whites thrive on clay-limestone soil, in an old pond that dried up under Napoleon, while the reds carry the freshness and structure of the sandstone. Working organically means complying with the organic farming specifications, with annual audits: no synthetic products or chemical fertilizers, a great deal of mechanical and manual work, and contact treatments that can be washed off, based on sulphur and copper.
The vineyard calendar is precise: manual pruning from December to March, mechanical weeding throughout the year, manual de-budding in May, manual trellising in June and July, and harvests from late August to early October, with the date decided by tasting the berries. The Roussanne and Viognier grapes for Les P'tites Terrasses are harvested by passerillage on two terraces above Lac de Laure. Vinification prioritizes fruit and terroir, with few sulphites and no barrel ageing, and malolactic fermentation is also carried out for the whites to achieve silkiness without residual sugar.
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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