The critic Jeb Dunnuck particularly appreciated the Domaine de Baron’arques wines presented to him at a tasting of Languedoc wines in January, writing up excellent tasting notes for them.
Domaine de Baron’arques 2013 : 91-93
“The 2013 Limoux offers serious notes of black raspberry, licorice, charcoal and toasted spice. It has remarkable purity of fruit, it leans more towards the fresher, more elegant end of the spectrum. Medium+-bodied, ...
The estate is known as Domaine de Lambert. It belongs to the Abbey of Saint-Polycarpe, a village near Limoux in the Aude department of Southern France. During the French Revolution, the estate is sold at a public auction to a Mr. Estribaud-Gaure from Carcassonne for 19,300 livres. "Lambert Farm comprises of buildings, a yard, fields, vines, cultivated and uncultivated land", the whole covering just over 81 hectares (200 acres).
The estate i...
Domaine de Baron’arques is located in Languedoc, in the commune of Saint-Polycarpe, near Limoux. The Domaine is a single 110-hectare (272-acre) estate, 43 hectares (106 acres) of which are planted with vines.
Located 400 km from the Atlantic Ocean and 100 km from the Mediterranean, the vineyard is subject to the climatic influence of both water masses, ensuring optimum sunshine and balanced rainfall. Also close to the Pyrenees, the parcels ...
Like the vineyard, the wines receive the same meticulous care and attention as Baroness Philippine de Rothschild's other estates. The grapes are harvested by hand in 12-kilo open baskets, as in the family's Bordeaux vineyards.
The grapes are sorted above the vat room and thus fed into the vats by gravity, a process which helps to keep the fruit whole. The grapes are gently destemmed and lightly crushed, then fermented in stainless steel vat...
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