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Domaine Gourt de Mautens
Owner: Jérôme
Bressy.
Address:
Route de Cairanne
84110 Rasteau
Tel. 490
46 19 45
Direct sale: Only after appointment.
Email:
info@gourtdemautens.com
Website: http://www.gourtdemautens.com/
Jérôme Bressy experienced both his father and
his grandfather growing vines. None of them bottled the wine. He tells us on his
website, that he eight years old was allowed from discarted grapes to make
"his own wine". Maybe many who have grown up in farmer families can tell
a similar story with another subject than wine. Maybe this story is not
the reason why the boy became a wine grower but he did! Jérôme started making
wine in his father's farm (1996 and 1997), and then decided to built his own
winery and cellar (1998)
The fields of the domain consist of 13 ha and the production is only about 25.000
bottles. The fields are cultivated biologique, controlled by ECOCERT -
since 2007 also biodynamique.
Bressy is blessed with very old vines - up to 90 years old. When
considering his ideals of wine makers (Henri Bonneau and Jacques Reynaud) and
the low yield he usually practice (12-15 hl/ha) it will be interesting to
follow the results.
He makes a cuvée of white Rasteau (not common) and only one cuvée of red
Rasteau (not common either),
Cotes du Rhone Village Rasteau Blanc
Is made from 45% Grenache Blanc, 45% Bourboulenc and 10% others. (small
production)
Cotes du Rhone Village Rasteau
Is made from 70% Grenache and 30% Carignan, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Counoise, Muscardin
og Vaccarèse.
The yield is very low. 2003: 14 hl/ha, 2004 12-18 hl/ha. All grapes are
de-stemmed. After fermentation the wine spend 1-2 months in cement tanks, then
about 12 months in small foudres (15 hl) or demi-muids and then again some
months in cement tanks before bottling.
Jérôme Bressy has an experimental attitude to wine
making. The ageing can vary from vintage to vintage,
"The red is matured 12 to 18 months, 10 to 12 for the white. We’ve
switched from new and used barrels, to big barrels, tuns and tanks which are
more suited to our climate and to the kind of wine we make. In 2005 the white
wine has not been matured in wooden barrels but in tanks, making its aromas more
delicate and pure."
In 2004 Bressy for the first time made a Vin Doux Naturel from
Grenache planted in 1937 (90%) and very old Carignan. The wine is aged
partly in tank and partly in barrels. The wine can maybe last for 25 years but
can be enjoyed from 3 years after the harvest.
Statement of
Bressy:
"I’m willing to make the best possible wine and to equal the great wine makers. To do so, I’m always trying new things and I am always questioning myself. I’m not one to make the same wine year after year, there must be an evolution and sometime even a revolution! That’s why one could be surprised tasting the difference between two vintage years of Gourt de
Mautens. Nothing’s for granted on the path to perfection, I keep on learning and expressing new things.
Each year I try to make the best of what the vine has to offer. But it all depends on nature, on the earth, the weather, and I try to feel that and do the best out from that osmosis."
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