Chateau Les Fenals
In Fitou, Château Les Fenals occupies a Languedoc mas surrounded by vines, between Narbonne and Perpignan. Marion and Mickaël Fontanel Moyer have run this 12-hectare family estate since 2006, after taking over from Marion's mother; the mas had been bought by the Roustan family in 1970. A former bastide between 1389 and 1589, then a château of the d'Aragon family until the Revolution, the site was administered by Voltaire's nephew, who appreciated its wine, as evidenced by a letter from November 1770. Destroyed and then rebuilt, it became the present-day mas.
The vineyard extends at the foot of the Corbières massif, on the edge of the Leucate lagoon, in the hottest and driest region of mainland France. The clay-limestone soils, very stony, remain cool thanks to the proximity of the lagoon, which provides the humidity needed for the grapes to ripen. The Cers and Marin winds sweep the site 300 days a year, creating a healthy climate and limiting vine diseases.
The vine is worked gently: no chemical weeding, soil cultivation, inter-vine cultivation, sulphur and essential oils as prevention, mating disruption, manual harvesting. The estate has been certified Organic Agriculture by Ecocert since 1 July 2020. The grapes are vinified and bottled in the mas's cellar, with the juices fermenting naturally, without added oenological products and at controlled temperature; bottling follows the lunar calendar.
Two protected designations of origin and one IGP structure the range: Fitou, the oldest designation in Languedoc, red only, Muscat de Rivesaltes and IGP Pays d'Oc. Fitou blends carignan, grenache and syrah aged in stainless steel tanks; the Alix cuvée, from the oldest vines, is produced only in years of perfect harvest; Tandem, dominated by grenache with a quarter syrah, ages twelve months in amphora. Muscat de Rivesaltes, a natural sweet wine, blends Muscat petits grains and Muscat of Alexandria. The other cuvées express grenache as a rosé, muscat petits grains as a dry white and carignan as a light red; Si Bulles is made using the traditional method, and Promenade, a sweet red wine, from lightly passerillé carignan.
The tasting room welcomes visitors all year round, and gîtes allow guests to stay on site.
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