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Foucade, le nouveau vin de dessert de Cabran
Dernière récolte pour les sémillons Les derniers sémillons ont muri jusqu’au bout de l’été 2019, sur la rouge colline qui domine le ruisseau du Ronflon, au Puget-sur-Argens. C’est par un beau...
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Le vin rosé peut-il se conserver ?
Une réponse qui se cache dans les tanins du vin. En effet, la longévité d’un vin et sa capacité à se bonifier avec le temps dépendent presque exclusivement de sa teneur en tanins, substances acides...
Read moreA word from the winegrower
In Puget-sur-Argens, at the gates of Fréjus, our wine estate has been cultivating 17 hectares of vines on the volcanic lands of Esterel for 200 years. Anchored in tradition but focused on sustainable and modern agriculture, we are HVE IV labeled and in conversion to organic farming.
Pioneers of the Côtes de Provence revival in the 1970s and co-founders of the Fréjus appellation, our parents passed on their know-how to us in the production of fresh and delicious rosé wines but also, for the benefit of an exceptional terroir, long-keeping red wines. We have added whites to our palette to offer you a complete range of fine, gourmet and generous wines, to drink or keep but above all to share.
Since my first harvest in 1989, I faithfully reproduce the ancestral gestures like picking oak branches and making a bundle of them to use as a filter in wine vats. I also innovate when I control the temperature of the refrigeration unit which monitors the fermentation of the rosés and that I protect the juices from oxidation with dry ice.
But far from pH figures and temperature curves, it is my sensitivity and the well-established idea of the wine that I like and that I want to produce that guide my decisions in the vineyard as in the cellar. And after a day spent harvesting, when I announce : « come on, it's time, we decuve! » it is a beautiful night of work that begins...
Renaud De Saint-Seine
Winegrower, Château de Cabran
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