Château Armoria
Château Armoria is located in Laure-Minervois, on the foothills of the Montagne Noire, about fifteen minutes from Carcassonne. The family has been established there since 1825, and the building dates from the 18th century. Julien Salles changed his life to return to this estate where he played as a child, with the desire to make vines and wine the essence of the place, around respect and love for nature and living things. Armoria evokes love and harmony, and Transformation is the name of his first cuvée.
Nine hectares of vines, including four and a half hectares under the Minervois appellation, are surrounded by twenty hectares of fields and twenty hectares of woodland. The entire estate is farmed organically, with an agroecological approach: cereal and legume cover crops, minimum tillage, ewes and lambs on all plots, and replanted hedgerows. The soils, which are very clayey, clay-limestone or sandy, give the wines their freshness.
The vines, mostly old heritage grape varieties—Carignan, Grenache and Mourvèdre, complemented by Syrah—are between 40 and 65 years old. Their deep roots are a response to drought, far from irrigation, but they require hard work scraping the vine trunks, staking and braiding, without pre-pruning, and manual harvesting. Young plantings of white and grey Carignan, white Grenache and Terret prepare tomorrow's whites, and Ugni, from the Southwest, adds a touch of originality.
The large cellar preserves the memory of seven generations: stone arches, vestiges of old wooden vats, and concrete and stainless steel tanks. Gravity replaces pumping, the press is vertical and hydraulic, and the grapes are micro-vinified plot by plot, using traditional vinification or carbonic maceration, to multiply blending possibilities.
The range includes a dry white from Ugni Blanc, blends of Carignan, Syrah and Grenache, single-varietal bottlings of Carignan, including Nova, and of Grenache, from vines planted in 1956, and a sulfite-free red from Carignan and Syrah. The estate also welcomes visitors for a cellar tour and a tasting.
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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