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Private: Fondugues Pradugues

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence

Variety

50% Grenache
50% Merlot

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Ramatuelle Plain

Soil type

River alluvium (sand,silt, gravels, pebbles)

Altitude0m altitude - parcels are located 800 meters from the Mediterranean Sea

Vinification

Fruit is 100% destemmed. Fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled, stainless steel tanks with indigenous yeasts. 14 mg/L of sulfur.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringUnfined / Unfiltered

Additional info

Total production average4,850 bottles

UPC Code Bottle741718812829

More about
the producer

Private: Fondugues Pradugues

Founded in 2010

14 hectares

Fondugues Pradugues produces low-intervention, biodynamic-certified wines on the presque-ile of Saint-Tropez, the iconic Provençal destination. In the 1960s, Danielle Rey purchased two farmhouses surrounded by 14 hectares of vines in the plain of Ramutuelle, a unique site surrounded by rolling hills, kept fertile by numerous underground aquifers, where the evening temperature is often 5º C (10º F) cooler than in Saint Tropez. The local names for the farmhouses, Fondugues and Pradugues, refer to this unique site - ‘ugues’ is the local patois, or slang, for water.

Fifty years later, in 2010, her son-in-law Stephen Roberts decided to move to the property full time with his young family. For many years, the vineyards had been farmed conventionally and the harvest sold off to ...