Château des Peyraux - Marie Couderc
Small vineyard of 5 Ha in organic farming in the PDO Fronton (South-West), composed of indigenous and historical grape varieties such as Négrette, Duras and Prunelar (replanted by Marie) the Château des Peyraux is reborn from oblivion after more than 20 years of abandonment.
The sizes used are the goblet (fan-shaped) and the simple guyots. The vines are mounted high enough, the trellising is done with a third wire and the vines are not trimmed. Great attention is given to the soil, to the natural rhythms, and the manual care of the vines is constant and meticulous, disbudding, suckering, de-leafing, etc., up to the harvest by hand. The young vines (4 ha) are picked (because the intercep is not enough), smoked and the inter-rows are sown with very diverse plant cover in order to improve the structure of the soil and make it fulfill its role of nutrient and water reservoir. , and to large and (very) small auxiliaries ...
The treatments carried out are classic organic, but less and less marked by copper (today at less than 3 kg / ha / year) and the first biodynamic-type treatments are attempted (with my modest means ...)
I make organic (little sulphite) and natural cuvées, leaving an increasing part to wines without added sulphites. I do not glue or filter the reds. The whites and rosés are glued with bentonite only. No chaptalization or addition of acidity.