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Typical of the AOP Marcillac, the Domaine Croizat is located in Saint-Austremoine, near Salles-la-Source.
In 1988, Philippe repeated the exploitation of his parents in the suite of the departure to his son’s retreat. With the passage du vignoble de Marcillac de vin de qualité supérieur (VDQS) in AOC in 1990 – aujourd’hui en AOP: appellation d’origine protégée – (1), the decision to develop the domain, in passing from one hectare to 3.5 hectares of vineyards. Progressivement the bergerie transforms a cave par excellence.
The origin of M. Croizat, Olivier’s grandfather, is a wine product and a lait. “ If I resume the succession, I will preserve the Brebis group for life “ precise-t-il.
The association between Philippe and son Olivier started in 2016. The repairs carried out on the buildings have been completed. Après le rachat de nouvelles parcelles, le domaine is désormais à plus de 6 hectares oriental vignes plein sud.
“ The work in the fields is a matter of manual selling, the waist is only sold “exclusive Olivier Portes, manager of Domaine Croizat. If the herbal tea is in the range of the tractors, the properties are necessary for the return. Although there is no bio-production, the cell is one of the raison d’etres of a culture.
And as a partner with a son, the two predatory men recommend the places in one of the properties and the installation of the table. As the company develops, winegrowers double the production area, preserving stock and regaining dependencies. In this case, the old bergerie has been transformed into a totalizer of a dream. Then it is a matter of cooking, a wine, a thawed layer, a transvasé, a circuit board, then the tonneaux at a constant temperature of 13°C.
The embouteillage was realized by the operators of the domain. The bouteilles have their own bathroom in another local avant-étiquetage. Cela represents 600 bouteilles per container for an annual production of 4,000 liters of wine on one hectare.
The aquatic plants, how many eux, are implanted in the flank of the colline and on terraces it is important that it is important.
Le Mansois (Fer Servadou) is the cépage roi du domaine. Plant on a soil argilo-calcaire, I offer a vin a peu plus tanique, a peu plus lourd. “Ici, in Saint-Austremoine, is a terre lourde. Some of the varieties are very rustic and what a brand is in its territory”Olivier’s explanation in advance: “Marcillac was divided into three major sectors: a terre-argilo-calcaire pour Saint-Austremoine; the rougier dans les environs de Clairvaux-Bruéjouls and a terre sableuse or the schiste dans le secteur de Conques en de Saint-Cyprien-sur-Dourdou . Ainsi, chacun des vins offers the nuances vary.” Tous les vignobles du Vallon travaillent sur ce même cépage. “Selon les plantations et la façon de travailler, cela fera des vins différents”assure Olivier that he has an excellent relationship with his products. “L’avantage is not such that it has a name on the territory, and can have its own clientele. It cannot be that competition is forced between us.”
Olivier Portes took part in the wine salons that were in the Occitanie region: Meauzac (Tarn-et-Garonne), Saint-Chély-d’Apcher (Lot), the festival of sales in Toulouse. During the season, the Croizat estate is not busy with the production marches of Belcastel and the presentation of a large number of event organizations by the Syndicate of the Wines of Aveyron. Note of Marcillac and the year-round tours that take place at the age of three, such as Entraygues, Millau or Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
You conclude about the taste of the famous film dramaturge and film producer, Marcel Pagnol : “Quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire, surtout s’il est bon.”
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