Château La Colombière - Les Frontons Flingueurs 2021
Château La Colombière is located on the historic terroirs of Villaudric, in the Fronton appellation in Languedoc . In 1970, Jean-René Chabanon built his cellar, planted the vines and created the estate at a place called Bellouguet after training with Jules Chauvet. In 1984, François de Driésen bought the estate and strengthened the identity of its wines around the Négrette grape variety. In the early 2000s, his daughter Diane and her husband Philippe Cauvin took over the estate, converting the estate to organic farming with certified biodynamic practices. They are moving towards vinification by parcel and cuvées entirely made from Négrette. They discovered in the vineyard pre-phylloxera strains of the Bouysselet white grape variety and revived this endemic grape variety.
Les Tontons Flingueurs is a cuvée made with the Négrette grape variety harvested manually. The grapes are partially destemmed and put in vats by gravity. The vinification is natural, without oenological inputs in raw concrete vats. Fermentation by infusion lasts 15 days then the wine is aged in concrete vats for 5 months .
Grape variety: 100% Négrette