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Sense PressaCorbières, Languedoc, France
About this wine
Marius Long started Sense Pressa in the village of Padern in the Corbières after training in Beaune and harvest stints across Burgundy, Sancerre, Latour de France and Hautes Corbières (including time with Mazière, the legendary Languedoc reference). The estate works small plots around Padern and Cucugnan on limestone, restoring vineyards on the steep hills the family worked before mechanization pulled growers down to the valley flats. Triplette is a Grenache-Carignan red built on this hill-country fruit, vinified biodynamically with no fining, no filtration and no added sulphur. 13.5% alcohol holds down what could easily have been a heavier southern wine; the result reads as juicy and Mediterranean rather than extracted, with the limestone signature pulling lift into the finish.
Winemaking
Biodynamic farming. Native-yeast fermentation. No fining, no filtration, no added sulphur. Hand-worked steep hill plots restored to viticulture by Marius Long.