Mas Belles Eaux

Harvest Report 2014

“At Mas Belles Eaux the decuvages finished on the 1st November. The least that one can say is that we had a turbulent harvest period: 400 mm of rain between the 15th and the 30th September! This forced us to harvest very rapidly.

Harvest began on the 28th September with the Syrahs harvested for the rosé of Mas Belles Eaux, then the white Grenache and the Vermentino (first year of production) entered the chai at the be...

We were drawn to this region by the huge potential of its terroir and climate, and by the many exciting examples of great wines produced in the Languedoc.

We believe that, in the future, the Languedoc will be recognised as the source of some of the greatest wines of France and we are sure that Mas Belles Eaux will be among them.

Over the past few years we have put in place the necessary resources to enable our vineyard to fulfil its full...

Mas Belles Eaux is situated in the Languedoc region (South of France). Here, the winters are mild and the summers hot and dry, giving a particularly generous wine-growing region through the diversity of “terroir”. Just walk around this large area of Languedoc and you will understand the extreme variety of soils.

We were seduced from the beginning by this natural wealth, which, every year, helps us to produce expressive wines that are true t...

To be sure that our different grape varieties deliver their very best, we have built a new steel and concrete vat-house, which opened in 2008. The facility means we can now work plot by plot, variety by variety. Juggling with vat volumes ranging from 2 to 256 hectolitres, we obtain the most comprehensive selection possible with each plot.

According to the nature of the vintage, we then carry out regular “remontage” operations, gentle extrac...