Salve Ager 2020, Thierry Forestier, Domaine les Monts de Marie

Region: Languedoc

Color: Light and fruity red wine, nice volume, very fine, silky tannins.

Grape varieties: Grenache (80) and Cinsault (20)

Mouth type: As a novice, you don't know natural wine and would like to discover it? Are you looking for accessible wines that are easy to drink and tame? These vintages are made for you!

Service Tips: Serve at 15 degrees, as is.

Guard time: Ready to drink and can be kept for at least 5 years.

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€17,60l
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The soils are sandstone and clay-siliceous, the vines are located at an altitude of 115 m, with a western exposure. Manual harvest. Whole bunches in the vat, natural vinification without intervention. Maceration for 5 days. Aged for 9 months in concrete vats.
Capacity 75 cl, 14% alcohol.

The winemaker's story:
It was in 2022, after business school and work experience in a large IT group, that Thierry decided to return to the land and make wine. It was during a pilgrimage to Lourdes and through encounters that the location of his future Domaine was decided, in Souvignargues. Helped for 10 years by the Moulin family, it was a second decisive encounter with the Pfifferling family in 2017 that awakened him to vinification without crushing, and to aging. This would transform the direction of the Domaine. In 2018 his wife Marie-Noëlle joined him on the estate. They work their 10 ha of vines, surrounded by forests, which naturally provide a diverse fauna and flora. The soils are plowed with a winegrower's plow in order to keep the humidity in the soil. The objective: "to capture the energy of the soil by managing the vines." A living soil has energy, and energy is mainly conducted by water. We have soils that are able to retain water, which preserves the freshness of the land. In these times, this is a blessing! In the cellar, we work as simply and naturally as possible. The goal: to let what nature gives us do as much as possible. The wines are aged from September to June to let them rest and wait for the finesse to set in. But each year, the aging and the approach methods evolve according to the vintage and the progression of our knowledge. In our bottles, we like energy & life: wines with a soul. " For them, these are unique, tasty and energizing wines.

Label & Natural Wines

Some labels can help us identify a natural wine. The AB label, for example, certifies organic farming. The Demeter label, for its part, guarantees biodynamics. There is also the 'Vin Méthode Nature' label, as well as 'Nature et Progrès', 'Les Vins SAINS', and many others.

Some estates choose to adhere to a single label, or even not to be labeled at all, even though their cultivation and winemaking method would allow it. In other words, there is no strict rule. It all depends on the winemaker's vision, his desires, and his convictions.

For us, it is important to meet all the people we work with in order to understand their working method and select the products that match our ideology.

Natural wine

At Terra Vinea, we are deeply passionate about natural wine. We love the emotions it arouses, the surprises a bottle can give us, the memories wine gives us. We also find it important to consume a product grown and vinified with respect for the fauna and flora, preserving all the life around and in it. These convictions are part of us, and we are proud to represent these women and men who put their heart and soul into offering us these living wines.