OLIVIER PITHON - Cuvée Lais - 2015 - Roussillon, FRANCE
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$35.00
$35.00
This exciting 9-hectare domaine is situated adjacent to the great Domaine Gauby in the village of Calce in the Roussillon region of the Languedoc. Olivier Pithon is orginally from a wine making family from Anjou in the Loire and after spending some time in Bordeaux decided to settle in Calce in 2000 after being introduced to Gerard Gauby by his brother, Jo, a wine maker from Layon. The vines are grown strictly according to biodynamic principles and they are superb – elegant, complex reds; delicate, floral whites.
Olivier has one main driving force for his work. “I’ve had only one desire: to give everything to my vines so that then they give it back in their grapes and in my wine. You must be proud and put your guts, your sweat, your love, your desires, your joy and your dreams into your wine.” This is the spirit along with the unique terroir of Domain Olivier Pithon that give his wines their quality and uniqueness
Maybe it's strange to name a wine with the name of a cow. Not so twisted when one knows Lais, a Jersey in Catalonia.
This wine is fermented for three weeks and then aged in barrels or large casks for 4 to 18 months according the vintage. This allows all the richness and the complexity of these concentrated grapes to come out. But the concentration is not our only worry. We need to know how to capture the volume and the frehness and achieve a balance that satisfies us.
Olivier has one main driving force for his work. “I’ve had only one desire: to give everything to my vines so that then they give it back in their grapes and in my wine. You must be proud and put your guts, your sweat, your love, your desires, your joy and your dreams into your wine.” This is the spirit along with the unique terroir of Domain Olivier Pithon that give his wines their quality and uniqueness
Maybe it's strange to name a wine with the name of a cow. Not so twisted when one knows Lais, a Jersey in Catalonia.
This wine is fermented for three weeks and then aged in barrels or large casks for 4 to 18 months according the vintage. This allows all the richness and the complexity of these concentrated grapes to come out. But the concentration is not our only worry. We need to know how to capture the volume and the frehness and achieve a balance that satisfies us.