Domaine Cottebrune by Pierre Gaillard

france • Languedoc-roussillon

In 2007, Pierre Gaillard moved to Faugères, seduced by the charm of the Cévennes, its scrubland and the many hillsides that hide there. In recent years, Pierre-Antoine, his son, has gradually taken over. Driven by this same desire to express terroirs as faithfully as possible, it produces authentic wines.

The wines of Cottebrune are decidedly Mediterranean with garrigue accents. They always find the Gaillard paw and this mineral weft brought by the shale.

With the Gaillards, everything is usually a story of shale... and in Faugères there is no shortage of shale! If the name is generally associated with the scrubland and its wild landscapes, it is according to these shale soils that it was delimited. They have the particularity of storing water in depth and forcing the vine to push its roots to be able to hydrate and resist high heat. In Faugères, the shale is particularly crumbly, it easily breaks into pebbles or small slats that litter the ground which allows the vine to penetrate more easily and reach the leaves containing the water in the rock.

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