Domaine de L'Astré

From the producer's website:

One day, we have wished to make sense of our life: Create a wine so good that by drinking it you feel beaming with friendship and kindness. One would taste a terroir. One would essentially feel all the work of Nature.

Before arriving at the vineyard in 2017, Sylvain was winemaker in the Médoc and Aude worked in a wine store close to Saint Emilion. Our paths crossed on the Argentinian viticultural lands at the foot of the Andes Cordillera. Hailing from the Bordeaux region and Corrèze, we had gone to discover wines from elsewhere. L'Astré is the result of our meeting and our shared passion.

We grow grapes on the border between Dordogne and Gironde in the Purple Périgord. Our vines flourish on a limestone cliff in a hilly landscape at an altitude of 80 meters above the Dordogne valley, protected by a forest.

The vineyard counts 8 hectares in one piece area on a clay-limestone soil: 1.70 ha of Sémillon + 6.20 ha of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon which average age is 35 years. The planting density is 5000 vines per hectare.

The winery is in organic farming since 2012 and we have chosen to accentuate this orientation by implementing a biodynamic approach.

All our wines are vinified as naturally as possible with natural yeasts with little manipulation on the harvest, and aged in old barrels.