Domaine de Roquenégade
In the Corbières, at the foot of the Montagne d'Alaric, on its southern slope, between Carcassonne and Lagrasse, Domaine de Roquenégade is a vineyard certified organic. Its owner-operators, Alexis Gaudin and Émilie Gal, produce red, white, rosé and vermeil wines there, in a terroir steeped in history where nature has regained the upper hand.
Alexis is from Brittany and Émilie from Aveyron. Both engineers—he in civil engineering, she in soil remediation—they met in French Guiana.
The vineyard covers just under ten hectares, between 200 and 500 meters above sea level. The Cers blows powerfully there and gives the wines character and freshness. The vines are planted on clay-limestone soils, red marl, blue marl and oyster sandstone, which bring freshness, complexity and elegance. The faults of the Montagne d'Alaric, such as the Pradelles fault or the Combe Noire, also create corridors that bring freshness to the vines.
The entire estate is farmed organically, with agroecology at the heart of the approach. Mechanical interventions are limited in favor of gentler practices: pruning and manual harvesting in crates, no hedging, shallow soil cultivation, spontaneous grass cover and plant cover, sheep grazing, agroforestry. In the cellar, the philosophy is the same: very few inputs, a concern not to overhandle the grapes, which are sorted a second time in the cellar before being gravity-fed into vats.
The wines are produced under the Corbières appellation, IGP Aude Val de Dagne and Vin de France. The range includes a red from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan, named after a massif of the Alaric, a generous rosé from Syrah and Mourvèdre with notes of wild berries and pomegranate, a white from Roussanne, a blend of Roussanne and Grenache Blanc with a fresh, taut palate, and a cuvée of Syrah and Carignan from sixty-year-old vines.
Details gathered from the estate's website and public sources, for information only.
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