first vintage was Marcel Lapierre
It's a great adventure. A story of a man and friendship that began over a bottle and goes with buying a piece of vine in the heart of Malepère. Oh, modest tip! Three thousand feet.
Just one acre of Grenache and Cinsault, lined with fig and cherry trees. A frail skiff Languedoc amid a sea of merlot and chardonnay.
"not get too excited, told Frederick stethoscope feet, one by one. We will bring them back. But little by little ... It will take time. First let them be. See how they call ... "
must say they turned away from our Languedoc. Forty years of chemistry, fertilizer and weed killer and then ... Nothing! overnight, just a return of land rain, wind, sun and some grass to stimulate soil furrowed.
"We see and we will, warned Frederic. A wine to share. A wine may be ... With what will come ... "
The following September, he came. But not heavy. A few dozen crates of Grenache tight grain and less still Cinsault.
In tanks, a dozen barely hectos , the friend said Palacios macerate whole cluster under a cover carbon.
"You got a name for the wine?", Then asked Frederick.
- Dream on, I replied.
- How?
- "Dream on" ... That's the name! For anyone who told you to pull out, these vines ... For those who think you t'échines for anything to work in bio ... And because a vine journalist, worked by a guy from Raw, it can only make talkative ... "
He smiled knowingly. Whispered as usual
a" not bad, not bad. .. ". And has turned around to join
his cellar. Heard.
few days later, the grape made its juice. Then the juice fermentation. Slowly, his rhythm ... He once bolted. But was soon brought to reason by the expert hand of the winemaker. Racking, barrel and tank again. Return to calm. In late October, the animal had almost finished its sugars. The
"malos" were on track. And juice had only to rest from his long journey. Before pouring bottle, probably the end of winter.
A new wine time of "new wine" . It would be a nice omen, no?
"Dream on!" join "Double Up" (white), M as I am " (merlot), " C as a Ca (Carignan) and the "unusual" (Malbec) in the large family of wines of Mas de my father.
