Via Caritatis Pax in Terra Red

It is this serene calmness of Nature and of profoundly rooted hearts, like the mountains and the almost century-old vines that are scattered there, that we wished to imbue into the Pax wines. The old vines on the rocky hillsides in their soil of deep clay, grapes slowly ripening under the generous sun of Provence, and patient growth are the three strings on which this symphony is played.

The parcels selected for this wine have a common thread: they share the same freshness coming from the mountain air, the same deep soil, enriched by the rocky and heavy clay mixture, and the same full exposure to the hot sun due to the fact that they are planted on side hills. The most typical example of this unique situation is the circled valley between the two monasteries of le Barroux.

The harvesting is done primarily by hand followed by a very strict sorting in order to keep only the grapes that are perfectly healthy and ripe. The vinification process is classical, with initial macerating in concrete tanks for 20 days without the stems. The extracting and straining by délestage is done at the beginning of the fermentation; then we perform some light stirring in order to prevent hard tannins. The malolactic fermentation follows, bourgui and the wine is later racked into concrete tanks for 18 months of aging and then bottled.