Chateau Les Croisille 'Silice' Malbec 2021

• GRAPE VARIETY: Malbec
• AVERAGE AGE OF VINES: 35 years
• FOOT DENSITY/HECTARE: 4500
• NATURE OF THE SOIL: Plots located on the plateau Luzech limestone between 250 and 300 meters above sea level, more precisely on terroirs made up of siliceous and ferrous red clays, which we call siderolithic terroir.
• HARVEST METHOD: Manual
• CULTURAL PRACTICES:  Simple guillot pruning, early deseeding, manual leaf stripping, manual thinning. Cultivation according to the principles of organic and biodynamic agriculture.
• VINIFICATION: Destemming, native yeasts, maceration for 15 days by infusion.
• AGING: 12 months of aging in cement vats.

About Chateau Les Croisille: 

The Croisille family adventure begins in 1979 when Cecile and Bernard rent a property to retire to the land of the Causses of Luzech. They cleared and restored life to these lands that become gradually plots where Malbec is king.  Their son Germain joins them in 2008, followed by Nicolas, her childhood friend in 2010 and finally Simon, the last of the family who joined the team in 2015. Today the estate has 30 hectares of vineyards and the younger generation, passionate about wine, brings a new vision to viticulture and new ambitions for the estate's wines. Now farming organically, which comes from a new way of thinking about the wine and understanding the impact and richness the wide diversity of calcareous soils have on the purity of the wine.