Domaine Mamaruta
On the Aude coastline, the commune of La Palme is home to Domaine Mamaruta and its twelve hectares of vines, in the Fitou appellation. Marc Castan, born in Narbonne, grew up in the Corbières Maritimes, between sea and land. After training in viticulture, he took over his grandfather's vineyard in 2003, spent a few years in a cooperative, then vinified his first cuvées in 2009.
The vineyard descends to the shores of the lagoon of the Fitou appellation, where rolled pebbles meet clay-limestone soils. 70% of the vines are gobelet-pruned, the others trained on wires in single Guyot or Royat cordon, for low yields of around 20 hl/ha. The grape varieties combine black Carignan and white Carignan with Mourvèdre, Syrah, black and grey Grenache, Macabeu, and Muscat à petits grains and Muscat of Alexandria.
Vineyard work aims to be as natural as possible: gentle soil cultivation, gradual replacement of the tractor by the horse, manual weeding, cows grazing between the rows, planting hedges along the edges and repairing old low stone walls. Treatments rely on sulfur, green clay and plant decoctions — chamomile, nettle, dandelion, lavender, rosemary. Harvesting begins in mid-August, by hand and in the morning only, in small crates.
In the cellar, fermentations take place without selected yeasts or oenological inputs, and most cuvées are aged without added sulfites. The reds — Kézako, Razzia, Ratatouille, Coupe soif, Minute Papillon, La Paysannerie Rouge, Les Tondeuses — rely on whole-cluster maceration, sometimes carbonic, with ageing in fiber tanks or barrels. The whites and orange wines complete the range: Constellations in Macabeu, Trafalgar and Zuru Zuru from Muscats, not forgetting the rosé Grain de Folie and the natural sparkling wines Pétrichor, Miamiamiam and Oracular.
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