Beaumes-de-Venise Les Terres Jaunes La Ferme Saint-Martin (Domaine) 2017

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Beaumes-de-Venise Les Terres Jaunes La Ferme Saint-Martin (Domaine) 2017

The wine

The domain's flagship wine, this Beaumes-de-Venise is organically certified: the limestone-clay soils are mechanically worked and a "green corridor" is maintained between the rows. The Jullien family manually harvest the grapes, which are then manually sorted and destemmed. They are vinified without additives, and macerated for 2-3 weeks. The wine is matured in concrete vats for between 6 and 9 months, then bottled with the slight addition of sulphites, without fining or filtration. This special wine is equally drinkable young or after 8 years of cellaring. Its bouquet is powerful, peppery and spicy. The attack is direct, with a dominant fruity note.

About the Producer Ferme Saint-Martin

This domaine is named in memory of the eponymous chapel that once existed where the cave now sits meaning the wines are aged in a place steeped in history. The domaine, on the other hand, is somewhat more recent. In 1950 farmers Aimé and Yvonne Julien bought the mand for polyculture but in 1956 an awful frost destroyed the couple's crops which gave them the idea to replace them with vines. 1970 marked the birth of the 11-hectare domaine. In 1979 Aimé and Yvonne's son joined the team and introduced sustainable agricultural methods.

Detailed characteristics