La draille Sommieres - Mas des Cabres - Packshot

Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Sommieres

Variety

40% Grenache
40% Syrah
10% Mourvèdre
10% Carignan

Selection of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, from low-yileding vines (30 hl/ha). This vintage goes through long refinement in barrels and creates an elegant, complex wine with notes of blackberry, sweet spice and mocha.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Lieux-dits Le Claou de Pages and Le Mas des Cabres

Soil type

Red flint clay/stony marls and oligocène limestone soils

Vine agePlanted in 2005 (Mas des Cabres) and 1980 (Claou de Pages)

Vineyard size2.4 ha

PruningRoyat

Altitude70-100m

Vinification

Natural yeast fermentation (Syrah and Mourvedre are destemmed). Grenache from Claou de Pages is whole-cluster fermented and sees a three week maceration

Elevage15 months in 300L used barrels 1-3 years (50%) and in fiberglass tanks (50%)

Harvest typeMachine Harvested

Additional info

Total production average7,000 bottles

UPC Code Bottle794020260765

More about
the producer

Mas des Cabres

Founded in 2003

12 hectares

Located in the foothills of the Cévenne mountains, Mas des Cabres makes unique wines that reflect their specific limestone and red clay terroir, located where the Languedoc comes together with the Rhône Valley. Their philosophy is to minimize intervention from the vines to the cellar, so as to let the wines express their true nature. The name Mas des Cabres comes from the name of the central lieu-dit where the vineyards are situated. Cabres is the Occitan word for the goats that were bred in this area in the 18th century. The domaine has been farming organically since 2019.