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Boulevard Napoléon Carignan 2019
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Boulevard Napoléon Carignan 2019
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Description of wine 🍷
Benjamin Darnault, c'est un peu le Jeff Carrel du Minervois. Après une expérience de winemaker aux quatre coins du monde, il s'est installé à la Livinière avec son épouse australienne. Il est consultant pour quelques domaines (dont le Château Maris) mais il produit aussi quelques cuvées avec des raisins acheté aux alentours. Vous pourrez lire un portrait de Benji dans cet article de Michel Smith.
Nommé d'après l'ancien nom d'une rue du village de La Livinière, Minervois, Boulevard Napoléon est le partenariat entre le restaurateur Trevor Gulliver et le vigneron Benjamin Darnault. Voyant le potentiel dans les vignes situées près de sa maison de vacances, Trevor a commencé à faire les vins et les a ensuite montrés à son autre partenaire, le chef Fergus Henderson, qui a été plus qu'impressionné. Chaque vin est une expression classique du cépage cultivé sur les pentes sèches et caillouteuses du sud de la France - mais ils conservent une vitalité et une définition qui les distinguent de la foule.
Terroir : Sols argilo-calcaire / Vignes de 65 ans environ.
Mode de vinification : Vendangé à la main en caissettes bois - Fermentation en cuve de 2600l / Macération de 3 semaines / Filtration légère, sans collage.
Elevage : 40% en fûts de 225l (de 1 à 2 ans) et 60% en cuves inox.
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What is an author wine?
This can be so diverse depending on the personality of their sire, that it is easier to define what it is not. An author wine is anything but a standard, stereotypical wine, made to please as many people as possible. It is therefore rarely produced in millions of copies, copying itself from vintage in vintage.
An author wine is therefore a wine that does not look like that of the neighbor. Which from year to year will evolve according to the vagaries of the weather and the mood of the author - the two that can be linked. Because the author does not rely on market studies to carry out his boat. He makes his wine as he feels, as he likes, as he can, sometimes ... and too bad if he does not please everyone.
This is why author wines are sometimes classified as "table wine" or "France wine". Because the winemaker did not plan the authorized grape variety*, makes the assembly or vinification recommended in the name **. He is often a bit rebellious, our author. But that is why we like it! ... That said, author's wines are not systematically marginal: they are present in most of the appellations, and can be part of the elite of these this***. Because they are not content to have personality: they are good, in addition! With in general aDegree of TorchabilityVery high: we never tire of it at the end of the first sip.
As author's wines are not chaptalized, levied, hacked ... They can have very different profiles depending on the vintage. It is up to us (resellers and consumers) to accept them as they are, and to remain faithful to the producers, because they need us to continue their activity.
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* For example, theTouriga Nacionalin the Minervois, or theSyrahIn Forez ribs. They are crazy, these authors!
** Some winegrowers dare to produceSweety with Mourvèdre or oneNatural sparkling with Pineau d'Aunis
*** Like those of Jean-François Ganevat in the Jura or Zind-Humbercht in Alsace
