tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58332302199669374512024-03-05T11:47:10.153+01:00Domaine Joneswww.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-10822092117700995732023-10-22T14:13:00.004+02:002023-10-22T14:13:41.930+02:00Harvest 2023 in photos<p> </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjztVltR7hdvcQPFFkfktFHVRnvrZ8pAdUpA7M2pauW6YFgVZ-KFAUv_juooCoMOmxpQ1vUWc3ZdZlo0vF43CkXDP4WqBsUFBkdTKtau8_3GhzO5oUpNQ8IGwkFyCtinJo8p2SEmQC5Tq0HEltxA6tLXilQnF8mIqd64LFYuJt-dI8A305RrgjOGU4kFPo" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjztVltR7hdvcQPFFkfktFHVRnvrZ8pAdUpA7M2pauW6YFgVZ-KFAUv_juooCoMOmxpQ1vUWc3ZdZlo0vF43CkXDP4WqBsUFBkdTKtau8_3GhzO5oUpNQ8IGwkFyCtinJo8p2SEmQC5Tq0HEltxA6tLXilQnF8mIqd64LFYuJt-dI8A305RrgjOGU4kFPo=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunrise over the Chateau d'Aguilar as Michel prepares the crates for the pickers</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOlL21ntrFrwywGPZqP4966tMAbQl9aVcM85tvoUAtqiFcLiCrzMeHBpwbq3KvHZ4IO9737ZAzuJN6rWYyvudpuWwtIDJeju9FTaZ9UrtBZZ1QpEKchTo83G0GDlHt1qx65iAI8Fr3W5OOYdDg6uhtdXyCwMjhm28kGxZhiBqd_tNz1kBluiwfIHymg3A" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOlL21ntrFrwywGPZqP4966tMAbQl9aVcM85tvoUAtqiFcLiCrzMeHBpwbq3KvHZ4IO9737ZAzuJN6rWYyvudpuWwtIDJeju9FTaZ9UrtBZZ1QpEKchTo83G0GDlHt1qx65iAI8Fr3W5OOYdDg6uhtdXyCwMjhm28kGxZhiBqd_tNz1kBluiwfIHymg3A=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />A lovely bunch of grenache gris from La Grande Pièce</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXa-tbsSOaSiWdxVVzBukxtHeP8fMXp-SR1wTUCTn6X0GoUlVx0jCBKS60BcVCpZS4Y2G4IxvI0srSqeSQ-YIFr_qV_3cKCje8B1s4Ni_LLmnlwY5s8gt7ZuhwGhCc6v_f5ooEorbGsp8mQrItACXGBwJX3TAoXhEEUs3rdToLaEC3yc5RAdty6_-b1LI" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9qhxFzAoqy-_5ZswC0EWNOmxC1AvSkNEPyFNsKf2VV6RSpMu8iYpfnIejm1Tkd2XVG8wE-jSh3Tz1g64LX-XKYvQqkygvx3T7T8ACRVJbXjloPuBMYh3cLrp1X7PXWpir-JYTT4uqa7Phvf42zCB3kAHNqlP3HTdsJAV_acTiOHYfjR66f3IhsBl/s4032/IMG_4787.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9qhxFzAoqy-_5ZswC0EWNOmxC1AvSkNEPyFNsKf2VV6RSpMu8iYpfnIejm1Tkd2XVG8wE-jSh3Tz1g64LX-XKYvQqkygvx3T7T8ACRVJbXjloPuBMYh3cLrp1X7PXWpir-JYTT4uqa7Phvf42zCB3kAHNqlP3HTdsJAV_acTiOHYfjR66f3IhsBl/w640-h480/IMG_4787.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Vineyard </b>Le Colombier</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Vine </b>Macabeu</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Date Planted </b>1971</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Soils </b>Clay, limestone, marne</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Oh là là view </b>Chateau d'Aguilar</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In Tuchan most of the macabeu vineyards were planted between 1968 and 1979 and it was particularly popular in the neighbouring village of Paziols.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Growers loved it for its high yields, big 'feel good' bunches and made a sweet fortified white Rivesaltes. As it is a naturally high yielding grape and produces tight bunches it can easily rot and so is best off on poor soils with no irrigation to reduce yields.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are quite a few different ways of spelling, and probably pronouncing macabeu, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: georgia;">such as maccabeu, macabeo, maccabeo, maccabeou, makkobeo and it is also known as viura in Spain where it originates from and now is mainly used for the production of cava.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">My macabeu vines in Le Colombier produce a very small amount of grapes and make around 3000 bottles per hectare (25hl/ha) and it is, to my knowledge, one of the last remaining macabeu vineyards in Tuchan. Traditionally the grapes would have been taken to the Cooperative in Tuchan to make a sweet wine but when I took the vine over I decided to make a dry wine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And I'm so glad I did. Macabeu has a bit of a bad reputation for making bland, blousy wines lacking in acidity but thanks to the low yields on my old vines the Jones Macabeu is surprisingly fresh and bright in its youth and takes on a honey, nutty richness as it ages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is good with mango, avocado and salmon, fish pie, seafood pasta, scampi, and baked camembert.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><br /></p>www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-60717108658481384532022-10-17T21:31:00.001+02:002022-10-17T21:33:16.609+02:00Macabeu <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The beauty of this time of year is getting to enjoy stunning blue skies, radiant sunshine but no crushing heat. What better therefore than a wine which beautifully illustrates the bridging between seasons. Our wonderfully crisp and zesty</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://domainejones.com/shop/wine/the-vineyard-collection/macabeu-2018&source=gmail&ust=1666092658587000&usg=AOvVaw2dNO6kwbfOlV9Fj-thV_Dp" href="https://domainejones.com/shop/wine/the-vineyard-collection/macabeu-2018" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" target="_blank">Viney</a></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://domainejones.com/shop/wine/the-vineyard-collection/macabeu-2018&source=gmail&ust=1666092658587000&usg=AOvVaw2dNO6kwbfOlV9Fj-thV_Dp" href="https://domainejones.com/shop/wine/the-vineyard-collection/macabeu-2018" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">ard Collection Macabeu</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">is ideal either to be sipped in the warm sun with an aperitif of prawns, salmon blinis with a dill spread and some garlic and herb-infused olives, or to accompany a warming October dish of fish pie, honey-roasted gammon joint, a platter of fresh seafood or this succulent lime and fennel salmon, recipe below ! </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Macabeu is a superbe grape variety which once helped make this region world-reknown. But how about we let Simone, one of our very own old Macabeu vines tell you herself: </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #333333;">I have been bred to make enormous amounts of grapes. My big, golden bunches were the pride of the area in the seventies when a fortified, sweet wine called Rivesaltes was so 'à la mode' that my owners were known as ‘americains’. But as Rivesaltes fell from its podium, so did I. Most of my macabeu friends are long gone, ripped up and replaced by younger, more profitable vines. You can imagine how grateful I am to Katie for saving me and my friends in this tiny vineyard called Le Colombier. So many people tried to warn Katie not to take us on, that we weren’t capable of producing low yields and serious wines. I’m so glad she didn’t listen to them! You can be sure that we are listening to her every instruction – low yields, small bunches, low yields, small bunches …. I think we’re doing OK! Susy Atkins thinks so too because she said that she was in love with our wine! And then she went on and on making all Katie’s hard work so worthwhile:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;" /><span style="color: #333333;">‘It’s one of those wines that you can go back to again and again and you will get more and more out of it. Pears with a slight tang of lime, orchard fruit – apple and pears, melon and a bit of honey. Lovely texture and quite full with a succulent end. A great wine!’</span></i></span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h2><div><span><br /></span></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: nyt-karnak, nyt-stymie, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.08em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></h2></div>www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-49922828372329948432022-10-17T19:46:00.001+02:002022-10-17T19:46:43.669+02:00Roasted salmon with fennel and lime<p> </p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-karnak, nyt-stymie, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.08em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ROASTED SALMON WITH FENNEL AND LIME</span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-karnak, nyt-stymie, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.08em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-karnak, nyt-stymie, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.08em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">INGREDIENTS</span></h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 30px;"> 4 servings</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;">2</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">limes</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;">1</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon fennel seeds, lightly crushed using a mortar and pestle or the flat side of a knife</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> salt and freshly ground black pepper</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;">4</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(6- to 8-ounce) skinless salmon fillets</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;">1</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">large fennel bulb with fronds</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;">6</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">fresh marjoram or thyme sprigs</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 10px; display: grid; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; text-align: right;"></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.02em;">Flaky sea salt, for serving</span></span></span></li></ul></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 25px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px;"><div style="border-top-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 5px; border-top: 5px solid rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 4px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-karnak, nyt-stymie, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.08em; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">PREPARATION</span></h2><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Step 1</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-imperial, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heat oven to 325 degrees. Finely grate the zest from 1 lime into a small bowl, and set aside the zested lime. Add fennel seeds, ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper to the bowl and toss to combine. Sprinkle mixture all over salmon.</p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Step 2</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-imperial, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Meanwhile, remove the fennel fronds from the bulb and chop up enough to make 60g. Trim fennel bulb, discarding stalks, and slice bulb thinly using a mandoline or a sharp knife. Spread half the fennel slices in a baking dish in an even layer and drizzle with oil. Arrange salmon on top.</p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Step 3</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-imperial, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Slice the whole, unzested lime into thin rounds and lay the slices on top of the salmon. Tuck marjoram around the salmon and drizzle salmon generously with more olive oil.</p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Step 4</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-imperial, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roast until salmon is just cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. (Thinner fillets may take less time, so start checking for doneness at 10 minutes.)</p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.45; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Step 5</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: nyt-imperial, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Meanwhile, toss chopped fennel fronds and remaining fennel slices with a pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Juice the zested lime and add some of the juice to the fennel, to taste. Drizzle the sliced fennel with olive oil and set aside to serve with the salmon.</p></li></ol></div></div></div></div></div>www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-89567337279320510142022-03-24T18:42:00.002+01:002023-01-22T07:27:30.028+01:00VINEYARD RAMBLINGS - St Roch<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy9uuvRWKPn3hCBfZ5r-AcqQ681mNaEn1CdWQOCFgp0UKdfwrPK8guqigcRE2COXSAO0evhnKRIabjJOFsZ_rGZ8Er1Zw-rd1a9nR7DE6-nLc9Kz63zhzRAarE6zszw19QcfFytx3DKk5Oq0hTzqPLDLXvKZx-rndEGcBM4TjJuXkJfk1p0NTnxeG3=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy9uuvRWKPn3hCBfZ5r-AcqQ681mNaEn1CdWQOCFgp0UKdfwrPK8guqigcRE2COXSAO0evhnKRIabjJOFsZ_rGZ8Er1Zw-rd1a9nR7DE6-nLc9Kz63zhzRAarE6zszw19QcfFytx3DKk5Oq0hTzqPLDLXvKZx-rndEGcBM4TjJuXkJfk1p0NTnxeG3=w640-h480" title="Heavenly St Roch" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Caveat;">Heavenly St Roch</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>VINEYARD</b> St Roch</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>VINE</b> Carignan, Grenache, Syrah</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>DATE PLANTED</b></span> Carignan, Grenache <span style="font-size: medium;">1905 / Syrah 1980</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">SOILS </span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">Limestone, scree and lots of stones</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">OH LÀ LÀ VIEW </span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Chateau D'Aguilar, Puy de la Gardie</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Caveat; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="color: #666666;">St Roch was the first vineyard I purchased in Tuchan. It was a small, unwanted plot of vines on the road out of Tuchan that takes you to the top of the Tauch mountain. Nobody rushed to buy it as the vines were old, it's on a steep slope, the soils poor and it's a favourite with the wild boar. So everything (apart from the latter) that I was looking for!! And this very small vineyard allowed me to make my very first Fitou. In 2010 I made just one hundred cases to see if an old vine Fitou could work. And a couple of months later I got my answer - a gold medal at the International Wine Challenge!</span></p><p><span style="color: #666666;">Jean-Marc was relieved as old vines mean a lot of hard work. The vineyard was in a pretty bad state when we bought it and needed major weeding (with the digger), replanting of missing vines and hedgerow management. The vineyard is on one of the best terroir at the base of the Tauch mountain and the soils are made up of limestone deposits eroded by wind and rain off the mountain. </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666;">The vineyard is relatively sheltered from the strong tramontane wind but even so branches are regularly broken and grapes blown off coming up to harvest. The vineyard is one of the last to be harvested in the village because of its altitude which makes it particularly attractive to wild boar. An electric fence helps to make it a little less attractive!</span></p><p><span style="color: #666666;">The purchase of this vineyard was the beginning of Domaine Jones Fitou! I then went on to purchase more small vineyards in and around the village of Tuchan to replicate the quality made from St Roch in 2010.</span></p><p><span style="color: #666666;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">All the vines are gobelet vines except for the syrah which is trained on wires and pruned as cordon de royat. The vineyard is farmed organically with the help of mignon the chenillard tractor. The grapes are hand harvested.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">This year I will be doing a full circle and making a field blend Fitou just from the vines in St Roch. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbfMqfuMnRTRJ-v7dYV4iSntgdvP7yNSRcZmjBCaKJuZuRRAaBjZ0MGMa7HN6HfjLGR7Dt4QMyXOowjWrxXmMXib3GO1xfpKMCxFOJZOpXEGgAfrZqJICR92S2IVzuZfc-Tnwb1OCAUh259lCY788wmqzLpxERnHGRmwzl92WUM2ncK8lkMNAlcr-j=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbfMqfuMnRTRJ-v7dYV4iSntgdvP7yNSRcZmjBCaKJuZuRRAaBjZ0MGMa7HN6HfjLGR7Dt4QMyXOowjWrxXmMXib3GO1xfpKMCxFOJZOpXEGgAfrZqJICR92S2IVzuZfc-Tnwb1OCAUh259lCY788wmqzLpxERnHGRmwzl92WUM2ncK8lkMNAlcr-j=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7_cEez4bgVQMaGGR-TZhIzOM7Ry-WJUk-cm48_Lr4QYgDhfOm4lTgHyfMPxebU0-7QqX2z8ileVrT4WSz2DjghoQHeSm78yH4NcbUH_U0SsCxK-GFxhvQCKcqaHJ7WPB5czsdYeLXafvH4p1M1mv0jYfCHD73f2zU2IL-qtiXnoaznBG68pjcy_-p=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7_cEez4bgVQMaGGR-TZhIzOM7Ry-WJUk-cm48_Lr4QYgDhfOm4lTgHyfMPxebU0-7QqX2z8ileVrT4WSz2DjghoQHeSm78yH4NcbUH_U0SsCxK-GFxhvQCKcqaHJ7WPB5czsdYeLXafvH4p1M1mv0jYfCHD73f2zU2IL-qtiXnoaznBG68pjcy_-p=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiYmHdB6pBNlovrtXaq9FkYm23RZIuFWgDIY-gl5VM_3mQV9Gy9LlIb-gnBiSjf4EMaiLhTF-9KOAgOUFJ19-p03_fckLL4Ieac33n25WxSkMP5-B6tRkyyfIIegyuCkRAJkibHVkk7rLxn9R-cCjU_wtflWj_wxVwyEDvUn8F6J4gJMKM8k_nwwmQ=s3637" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3637" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiYmHdB6pBNlovrtXaq9FkYm23RZIuFWgDIY-gl5VM_3mQV9Gy9LlIb-gnBiSjf4EMaiLhTF-9KOAgOUFJ19-p03_fckLL4Ieac33n25WxSkMP5-B6tRkyyfIIegyuCkRAJkibHVkk7rLxn9R-cCjU_wtflWj_wxVwyEDvUn8F6J4gJMKM8k_nwwmQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvest</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvz6E6nYMi6MKGJsPRkKvcExxQyOTLRsF5p8wU1R_5Yg5RFoJrrvyhHICaFtD8wEAljk-5ER2CpfikKoWJJrRLbFDKycUWaoB9lr3RiaGYKXRB4RjI7AGiX94tq-IpvDt7c17-1OnqbjnrA2qqrnguURDxYnJwviURix_NwScHPG0gmDASxD1RemCE=s3872" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3872" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvz6E6nYMi6MKGJsPRkKvcExxQyOTLRsF5p8wU1R_5Yg5RFoJrrvyhHICaFtD8wEAljk-5ER2CpfikKoWJJrRLbFDKycUWaoB9lr3RiaGYKXRB4RjI7AGiX94tq-IpvDt7c17-1OnqbjnrA2qqrnguURDxYnJwviURix_NwScHPG0gmDASxD1RemCE=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvest</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0Mr-9kcqbDjO5jP-gGu9C5_AsXPc8bOlrpoB9TuOQB5q29Uvm7gDq6D4ZNO1EbuAu-8jCGQPm9PyvSyyXGSOIFmNXRN0IAPjtsAa1nXD21NDyx_GHpguroNxkCNYUWkngA0jfMMoMzx6kWUFQcHDZQA92rCQhTEeDPiih4YbUVotQmC3P9wuoNFeb=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0Mr-9kcqbDjO5jP-gGu9C5_AsXPc8bOlrpoB9TuOQB5q29Uvm7gDq6D4ZNO1EbuAu-8jCGQPm9PyvSyyXGSOIFmNXRN0IAPjtsAa1nXD21NDyx_GHpguroNxkCNYUWkngA0jfMMoMzx6kWUFQcHDZQA92rCQhTEeDPiih4YbUVotQmC3P9wuoNFeb=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_AW9T9LCtrwvMwNkZR5r1tKmZdHZFCbbUsRCs4aCX6wrxc-GL8orgAPF2SPYlbUDG6G15oaHGXERCnwhBTKEZIpCxYJwXZVAYWGIXTGbKkg3vEim8TP6V-fRzfkuDTTHp-vnevkm0EFq8apjNYg-4ZvAh1RWVsHYqZHhL_Qu6EIYl7KEQaHhuVzU7=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_AW9T9LCtrwvMwNkZR5r1tKmZdHZFCbbUsRCs4aCX6wrxc-GL8orgAPF2SPYlbUDG6G15oaHGXERCnwhBTKEZIpCxYJwXZVAYWGIXTGbKkg3vEim8TP6V-fRzfkuDTTHp-vnevkm0EFq8apjNYg-4ZvAh1RWVsHYqZHhL_Qu6EIYl7KEQaHhuVzU7=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Caveat; font-size: large;">Domaine Jones is made up of 15 small vineyards covering 12 hectares. Each has a name or 'lieu-dit' which tends to be a name that has been used by the Tuchanais for generations. Everyone in the village knows the 'lieu-dit' even though they might not be on any maps.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-50244195621983911502022-03-24T18:42:00.000+01:002022-03-24T18:42:39.092+01:00VINEYARD RAMBLINGS - AOC Fitou<p>The history of the Fitou appellation begins not with Fitou but with Corbières. There has always been a notable difference between the quality of the wine from low yielding vines in the hills (Hautes Corbières) and the wine from high yielding vines in the plains around Beziers and Narbonne and the producers of the Hautes Corbières have long been on a mission to achieve recognition for their wines.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk9qJ6diNVBKpTUtLcqO9ksmUQfd_GHsXSquFo7cZTgkphMGeWgrhb1fktUXHsXmkUJ8v0F5VIXrPkribhmH4gox8Ug41_WGg7z8JJ557emsZ0aNkTYPMXuIkiXKcL_SQpzRizqNElFzzckoR2WcWy6i1_JouvthF8oizPzr06zxHWjzo0ZbFmJhW0=s256" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="197" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk9qJ6diNVBKpTUtLcqO9ksmUQfd_GHsXSquFo7cZTgkphMGeWgrhb1fktUXHsXmkUJ8v0F5VIXrPkribhmH4gox8Ug41_WGg7z8JJ557emsZ0aNkTYPMXuIkiXKcL_SQpzRizqNElFzzckoR2WcWy6i1_JouvthF8oizPzr06zxHWjzo0ZbFmJhW0" width="197" /></a></div><br /><p>Initially the word "Corbières" was used for the wines as it designated a specific geographical area but the area was recognised as a single wine producing area - <b>Corbières Viticole.</b> The negociants may have known of the superior quality coming from the inland area but the consumer didn't as they were all under the label Corbières. The vignerons definitely didn't see any financial reward as they were paid the same for their carignan and grenache at 13° as an aramon at 10° from Narbonne. </p><p>In 1908, just after the Crise Viticole of 1907, Corbières Viticole covered 18 villages and the Hautes Corbières were well represented with 11 villages in the canton of Tuchan - but by 1923 there were over 70 villages producing 808 000 hl mainly from the plain. This increase in production lowered the price. </p><p>In 1936 AOC Rivesaltes and Côtes d'Agly were awarded for sweet fortified wines (<b>V</b>in <b>D</b>oux <b>N</b>aturel) across the border in the Roussillon but nine villages of the Languedoc were able to reply to the AOC rules and were allowed to produce these appellations thus guaranteeing a higher price for their wines. The villages were Tuchan, Paziols, Villeneuve, Cascastel in the highland area and La Palme, Leucate, Treilles, Caves and Fitou in the maritime area.</p><p>The growers of these 9 villages contested the Corbières Viticole 12 times form 1930 to 1951 but it was never changed mainly because of the importance and wealth of the larger growers on the plain.</p><p>But the mission continued to get an AOC for a dry red wine rather than the generic name of Corbières Viticole. The village of Tuchan in the Hautes Corbières wanted an AOC called <b>Côtes du Tauch</b> named after the Tauch mountain that rises to 900 m behind the village but it was rejected by INAO as there was no documented history of wine making. At the same time the maritime villages were trying to get an appellation called AOC Fitou and unlike their counter parts in the Hautes Corbières they found a reference to Louis X111 and Louis XIV trying the red wine of Fitou.</p><p>The second World War had a devastating effect on the vineyards especially in the maritime area of the proposed Fitou appellation. Vineyards were ripped up and planted with essential vegetables and the Germans occupied the villages of Leucate and Lapalme.</p><p>After the war, highland Côtes du Tauch joined with maritime Fitou and requested a single appellation - AOC Fitou. In 1947 a delegation came down from Paris and the INAO visited Villeneuve and Cascastel and had a party in Leucate before finally awarding the Fitou appellation in 1948. The producers of Fitou were reassured by the appellation Fitou to differentiate it from the large Corbières area but it was going to take years before with wines were recognised by the consumer.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFQWe4Tyt-HPfIo8knFDHEEpyOjt0Qi3NOt1vGUhuJZLH_T7-DC713w22k2DneYqNR8SKL1499FogS-05Aik_VYuKdxcfvDoKda5zfm1Gy0Rf0oybVj_VtcL9bh4q2bg7zFv2M0l9Ju-v1JJzoQdIxkTIGJzZ7P_IfAjXH9oWBGbIFRxnQ3XFn2hot=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFQWe4Tyt-HPfIo8knFDHEEpyOjt0Qi3NOt1vGUhuJZLH_T7-DC713w22k2DneYqNR8SKL1499FogS-05Aik_VYuKdxcfvDoKda5zfm1Gy0Rf0oybVj_VtcL9bh4q2bg7zFv2M0l9Ju-v1JJzoQdIxkTIGJzZ7P_IfAjXH9oWBGbIFRxnQ3XFn2hot=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-9586427005617193152020-10-24T16:25:00.000+02:002020-10-24T16:26:34.660+02:00Harvest 2020<div class="separator"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img data-file-id="5812862" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/8eb238fd-013f-40a9-99ba-8cf8a8148260.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 133px; margin: 0px; width: 130px;" width="130" /> <img data-file-id="5812854" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/7cdd8e3f-0544-432b-bd86-8dbb68c6604e.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 133px; margin: 0px; width: 100px;" width="100" /> </div></div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: black; font-family: Times; orphans: 2; widows: 2; width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td width="20"><img alt="" height="1" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/1acb40e6-7301-434a-a2e4-9c52d23eb451.gif" width="20" /></td><td align="left" style="padding-bottom: 20px;" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">This week we pressed the last vat from the 2020 harvest. It was vat number 14 from the </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Rebouls Carignan </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">vineyard. This was one of the last vineyards we picked so logical that it should be the last one to be pressed – but it was so far behind the others. The fruit was perfect, the yields low so we left the wine to macerate on the skins for 5 weeks. It marks the end of the 2020 harvest – the grand finale!</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><img data-file-id="5812974" height="50" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/8b9a445f-79ea-4e9d-a040-33f80ca1b7b8.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 50px; margin: 0px; width: 37px;" width="37" /></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The harvest started on the 24</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> of August at 7am with a team of five pickers, Michel on the tractor and Sébastien picking up the cases. This is the 12</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> harvest at Domaine Jones and we have never started so early. Climate change is starting not only to interrupt our summer holidays but also bringing with it new challenges for our vineyards. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">So what was different this year – well Covid put a spanner in the works as far as our Spanish pickers were concerned. We normally have a team of hard picking, sun proof Valencians but this year for the first time we were without the Spanish. I really shouldn’t have worried! Equipped with individual water bottles, hand sanitiser, face masks and separate vehicles the tuchanais (and one from Paziols) picked their way through my vineyards. But not just picked, picked, smiled and laughed right up to the last bunch.</span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><img data-file-id="5812970" height="50" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/077a859a-462d-4331-b421-a8297d5916f4.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 50px; margin: 0px; width: 37px;" width="37" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"> </div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The whites came in first – grenache gris and grenache blanc followed by the macabeu from </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Colombiers</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">, the muscat from </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Taissonieres </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">way up in the garrigue, the extremely rare carignan gris from </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">La Roque</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> and finally the grenache gris from our new vineyard </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">La Grande Pièce</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> in the valley under the Chateau D’Aguilar.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The La Gare winery was full of excitement as we made two barrels of orange wine from the macabeu and for the first time ever we discovered the quality of the fruit from </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">La Grande Pièce </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">grenache gris. The vines are 70 years old but as the grapes have always been taken into the local Cooperative by the previous owner the wine has never been made separately before.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">All I can say is the vines must be enjoying their retirement at Domaine Jones - the wine is absolutely beautiful, so perfumed and evocative you could almost be walking through the vineyard. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"> <img data-file-id="5812966" height="50" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/0bb5c295-f818-49f6-b9cb-70f17826f32d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 50px; margin: 0px; width: 37px;" width="37" /></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The 8</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> of September was the ‘top départ’ for the red grapes starting with the syrah from the</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> Caune </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">vineyard. And with it came my first mistake of the harvest. Last year we got 352 cases from the vineyard so as the grapes came in I started to fill V3 our largest vat. This year we only got 195 cases 😬. It wasn’t the fault of the wild boar, or mildew or Jean-Marc (!) – there were just some vines with no grapes. It was my fault for assuming the yield would be the same and that is an elementary mistake by a would be farmer!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">We finished the harvest on the 22</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">nd</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> September with total volumes about 15% down but excellent quality grapes</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">All the vineyards that we visited since April in my vineyard rambles are now in their little vats – </span><u style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">St Roch</u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> is in vat number 12, the syrah from La Caune is in vat number 5 the carignan gris from La Roque is in vat number 10. It’s weird and wonderful at the same time that all those vineyards are now reduced to a couple of hundred litres. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">But it’s not just wine, I have tried to capture the terroir (tear–wah), the sense of place, the wild herbs 🌿, the wild flowers 🌸the tramontane 💨, the Tauch mountain, the soils, the people. Only time will tell if I have succeeded! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Talking of people I wasn’t alone in the winery - I had a happy 'cru'. Steve came back after a year off to help me (more I helped Steve) and it was such a pleasure, and a relief, to have experienced, trustful hands to respect our year’s work in the vineyard. Steffen and Sandy bought a new dimension to the winery – german organisation, great friendly vibes and the occasional yoga stretch and culinary delight! Not to mention Tom who did a sterling jog washing over 1500 baskets.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"> <img data-file-id="5812874" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/a5e34455-449f-451a-be5d-e5cc69d4e43d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 133px; margin: 0px; width: 99px;" width="99" /> <img data-file-id="5812822" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/ea4aede4-d13e-4a83-a9f0-358d17362648.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 133px; margin: 0px; width: 177px;" width="177" /> <img data-file-id="5812866" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/5268e0e8-2a9b-4778-9fbc-d213a172add1.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 133px; margin: 0px; width: 100px;" width="100" /> <img data-file-id="5812838" height="133" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ce1c80e79bd3ab3192f402caf/images/12d506db-10e1-40ee-a8c9-e62eec8b9e49.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 133px; margin: 0px; width: 99px;" width="99" /></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">We had a couple of visits during the harvest, Quentin, James and Claire and Julia, and we even shared breakfast on the rock with Justin from Domaine of the Bee. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">We had fun! We had fun in such an ‘année de merde’! We all loved the 2020 harvest, enjoyed working together and that will be reflected in the wines! It was a special one – a distraction in a difficult year, a covid harvest, a relief and a breath of fresh air.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" />www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-67724107236688505172019-04-30T09:52:00.000+02:002019-04-30T09:52:26.406+02:00Hairy Grenache 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's here - the long awaited new vintage of Hairy Grenache 2018. This is our second vintage of 100% Lledoner Pelut aka hairy grenache and it's every bit as hairy as last years! </div>
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We love it - it has delicious raspberry and strawberry fruit on the nose and such a delightful smoothness in the mouth. It is perfect for summer barbecues and when you prefer a slightly lighter glass of red. The other day we enjoyed a glass with the local dish - Boules de Picolat - which are meatballs in a tomato sauce and it went perfectly - we also tried it with a young local goat's cheese and it was so good we carried on drinking it with our fresh strawberry dessert. That wasn't quite as good but I bet it's great with a dark chocolate dessert. </div>
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Our little secret for this wine is to only leave the skins in the juice for 4 days before pressing and leaving the fermentation to finish without the skins. This way you get all the fruit flavour but without the dryness of the tannins. It took us a while to understand this grape but now we know how to treat it it is rapidly turning into my favourite grape. You could say we've found the perfect hairstyle for our Lledoner Pelut.</div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, baskerville, georgia, serif;">This year we are celebrating 10 years of Domaine Jones. 10 years!!! Incroyable.<br /><br />We started in 2009 with just one vineyard in the village of Maury and made a couple of hundred cases.<br /><br />The plan at that stage was only ever to make two wines - Jones red and Jones white.<br /><br />Today we produce 40 000 bottles from 14 tiny vineyards in and around the village of Tuchan and have a range of 11 wines.<br /><br />We probably have one of the most daring business plans ever – 14 vineyards scattered over 30 km, exclusively old vines that need a lot of looking after, limited production wines from an area not known for expensive wines.<br /><br />But we have built our business on doing things differently and it seems to be working. When you read in the press that we are ‘taking Fitou to the next level’ and ‘a leading light’ it pays to be different.<br /><br />We have come up to some pretty strong opposition locally and that doesn’t include the wild boar, forest fires and storm force winds. And we have moved winery 3 times to finally find the perfect building in the train shed. <br /><br />So what does the next 10 years hold – well, we won’t be buying anymore vineyards! But we will be concentrating on getting the most from our existing 14 vineyards. And that means registering them as organic and even trying out homeopathic remedies on our vines using the local herbs.<br /><br />In the winery we will continue to understand each different grape variety and adapt wine making accordingly like we did with the Lledoner or Hairy Grenache grape!<br /><br />Thanks for all of your support and here’s to the next 10 years</span>!!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A delightfuly fresh, dry rosé wine with refreshing citrus flavours from the carignan grape and ripe fruit from the muscat adding just a hint of sweetness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This article made my day. To read in a national newspaper (in this case The Guardian Feast magazine) that my wine '<b>takes Fitou to the next level'</b> is totally amazing especially when it's the brilliant Fiona Beckett who says it.<br />
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It is basically what we have been trying to do for the past 10 years by using only old vines with extremely small yields. It seems to have paid off :-))))<br />
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For the full article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/oct/26/grenache-red-wine-underrated-grape-fiona-beckett?CMP=share_btn_tw" target="_blank">click here</a><br />
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The 2016 vintage is available at <a href="https://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/ProductDetail.aspx?pd=FC35481" target="_blank">The Wine Society </a>or from <a href="http://domainejones.com/product/fitou/" target="_blank">my website</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We started Domaine Jones’ 10</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
harvest (yes 10 years already) on the 27</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> August a week later than
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rain in the spring and a resulting abundunce of grass in the vineyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps not the best year to start our
conversion into organic production but we had to employ an extra person and buy
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balanced with less sugar than usual and surprisingly a slightly lower acidity.
The freshly pressed juice smells delicious and ferments have so far finished on
3 of the vats producing wines that show great varietal character – grenache
gris mineral, lean and stoney, grenache blanc - fruity and plumper and the
macabeu lovely ripe pear character and more weighty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The grapes were easy to press with
a high juice content although the press were difficult to settle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On the reds we have picked
everything except for 2 small vineyards of carignan which we will probably pick
at the end of this week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We started with the syrah which
ripens first, then the grenache and the hairy grenache and finally the carignan
which takes a bit longer to ripen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Despite a small heatwave in July
which made everyone talk about an early harvest, the ripening of the reds has
been slow and on a couple of occasions we have held back our 15 strong team of
pickers and delayed picking by a couple of days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In the 10 vintages we have done I
have never seen such juicy grapes and such intensely fragrant juice. We do 2
rack and returns a day which involves taking the fermenting juice from the vat and then
pumping it gently back over the skins and the Gare du Vin winery is just filled
with fresh red fruit flavours – strawberry, blackcurrent and raspberry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The ferments just totally have a
mind of their own though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost as soon
as the grapes see the vat they start to ferment so you have to be really quick
with the cooling as otherwise ferments would be over before you have had time
to gently extract all the flavour and structure from the skins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put our grapes in a cooling room overnight
to get a bit more control but even at cold temperature the red ferments are
quick, very quick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It is early days but we can
already see that the syrah are intensely perfumed and dark in colour and the
grenache are slightly lighter in colour than usual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wait to see what the carignan will be
like - and of course the hairy grenache.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-56876981979786265082018-05-26T16:20:00.001+02:002018-05-26T16:20:14.589+02:00Fennel in my armchair<br />
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Before the beginning of this year I don't think I had ever tried fennel before - quite simply because I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. <br />
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<i>'Fenouil'</i> also rates as the second hardest word to say in french just behind '<i>fauteuil</i>' (armchair).<br />
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But one morning at the organic market at Place de la République in Perpignan I couldn't resist the fresh aniseed perfume coming from the fennel box any longer. <br />
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And now I think I've become an addict. In winter we oven roast it with tomatoes and now that summer is on its way we slice it very thinly with celery, add olive oil and lemon juice. Both are absolutely delicious especially with a glass of my Grenache Gris. <br />
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I'm not sure if there is a fennel growing season but I very much hoping there isn't.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Jean-Marc wanted to rejuvenate a neglected Syrah vineyard and the whole process was totally fascinating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Back in December, </span>Jean-Marc had booked up one of the few ‘grafters’ in our area. They are a Portuguese family and we were the first vineyard they were doing this season. As there is a limited window in which you can graft vines they already had bookings for a further 30 000 vines over the next 6 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However, when they arrived they almost turned around and went back home again as we had failed to dig out the earth around each vine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean-Marc had hoped that given the recent rain this wouldn’t be a major task and the grafters could do it themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the soil had set like concrete - three pickaxes, a lot of muscle power and sweat later, Jean-Marc had to agree that he had been slightly optimistic.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He then makes an incision and taps in two scions and binds them with raffia before covering the whole graft with soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This technique is called cleft grafting and the skill is not only in preparing the rootstock but also in whittling the scions so that there is the maximum amount of cambium (single layer of cells just below the bark) to ensure a successful graft.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">All of the vines in Tuchan are grafted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phylloxera devastated most French vineyards in around 1890 and the only cure was to plant phylloxera-resistant American rootstock and graft the scion on to the roots. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So why would you still bother to graft today?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean-Marc says that it can take up to 20 years for a vine to establish its root structure because our soils are so stony and dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you graft vines on to the existing rootstock then you can harvest within two years because of the vigour from the roots. If you plant a vineyard from scratch you have to wait four years to harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I did get very excited about the idea of being able to change the grape varieties overnight at Domaine Jones so that I could up my production of Carignan Gris and Lledoner Pelut but Jean-Marc was very quick – in fact extremely quick - to point out that it will only work on younger more vigorous vines! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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If you’re after inspiration for new wines to try this month, why not go on recommendation from three of the UK’s top wine-writers. My press highlights this month include two shout outs for my Domaine Jones Grenache Noir - a ‘Star Buy’ in <a href="https://www.rosemurraybrown.com/rose-uncut/articles/hidden-gems-of-france"><span style="color: #0079cd;">The Scotsman</span></a> and a superb write up in <a href="http://midweekwine.co.uk/">midweekwine.co.uk</a> - and, also I'm super excited to be featured in Will Lyons' column in <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/"><span style="color: #0079cd;">The Sunday Times Magazine</span></a>.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wine-review-great-value-wines-from-the-lang">‘For sheer enjoyment and bang for your buck, it’s hard to beat the Languedoc’</a></span><br />
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<b>Will Lyons,</b> The Sunday Times Magazine, 22<sup>nd</sup> April 2018 </div>
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Will’s article sums up what we set out to prove at Domaine Jones – this little corner of the Mediterranean is a fantastic part of the world for making wine. And as Will says: ‘a new wave of talent and investment has created pockets of excellence’. Yes, we are making wines that can compete with the best from anywhere in the world and offer amazing value too. </div>
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<i><b>‘Ten years ago Katie Jones gave up a marketing job to set up her own winery in Fitou, west of Perpignan, learning along the way from the Australian wine consultant David Morrison. The wine is pretty good: medium-bodied and smooth, full of rich fruit favours. £14.50, The Wine Society. </b></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.rosemurraybrown.com/rose-uncut/articles/hidden-gems-of-france" target="_blank">Hidden gems of France</a><br />
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***STAR BUY***</div>
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Domaine Jones Grenache Noir 2015 </div>
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(£12.50 The Wine Society www.thewinesociety.com) </div>
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<i>‘Made by Englishwoman Katie Jones from 90-year-old vines grown on rugged schist soils in Maury on the edge of the Garrigue. An astonishing vivid unoaked rendition of this peppery grape with lovely succulent ripe fruits, a wonderful wine to enjoy right now with a platter of charcuterie – not for the long haul: 14.5%’</i></div>
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<a href="http://midweekwines.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">An English Contribution to Southern France</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brian Elliot</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>'Leicestershire's Katie Jones is something of a legend creating fantastic and distinctive wine in a little-known corner of Languedoc - often having to overcome ultra-conservative local opposition to survive.</i></span><br />
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In Tuchan we are lucky to have wild asparagus that grows in the hedgerows surrounding our vines. <br />
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You need eagle eyes to seek out the thin, camouflaged shoots but you need to search even harder to find a wine to go with them.</div>
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But look no further - <b><a href="http://domainejones.com/product/blanc/" target="_blank">Domaine Jones Grenache Gris</a></b> with its subtle hints of fennel and wild herbs is the perfect wine to accompany asparagus.</div>
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At this time of year, our local reserve is exhausted but the amazing organic market in Place de la République in Perpignan has bundles of delicious green asparagus. My favourite dish is so simple - just heat the oven to 200°C, place the asparagus <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">in an ovenproof tray, drizzle olive oil all over </span>and sprinkle with salt. Place a couple of thick strips of Serrano ham on the asparagus and cook for about 20 minutes or until the asparagus is tender.</div>
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www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-6448320188255902412018-05-18T13:34:00.000+02:002018-05-18T13:34:09.363+02:00Visit to Domaine JonesWe always love to have visitors at Domaine Jones, especially as we are a little off the beaten track!<br />
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As we are not 'just down the road', it is always best to check that we are going to be in before you start out! <br />
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Either give me a ring on 0033 686679468 or send me a quick email katie@domainejones.com.<br />
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The address to head for is:<br />
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La Gare du Vin<br />
1 rue de la Glacière<br />
11350 Tuchan<br />
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which is just off Rue de la Gare opposite the bank.<br />
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Or search for Domaine Jones on Google <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8820184,2.7222976,14.6z" target="_blank">maps</a><br />
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We will be pleased to show you around our converted train shed winery and taste a selection of Domaine Jones wines.<br />
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Our first visitors of the year were lucky enough to catch Jean-Marc out in the vineyard planting some Grenache Gris vines.<br />
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At Domaine Jones, we’re not afraid to do things differently and we don’t mind standing out from the crowd. We do not follow trends, we start them, and I know we have raised an eyebrow or two in the village by turning something of an underdog grape into a Crufts champion!<br />
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You may remember that a couple of years ago I bought a vineyard planted with Lledoner Pelut - aka Hairy Grenache - so called because of the soft down on its leaves. In 2015 we tried making the wine - you can read about it here:<br />
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<a href="http://domainejones.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/a-history-of-lledoner-pelut-in-tuchan.html" target="_blank">A history of the Lledoner Pelut in Tuchan</a><br />
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but after the harvest, I went rather quiet as we were disappointed with the results. Last year we thought we'd have another go but we did it differently.<br />
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We have also let our imagination run wild and created a unique label with a quirky cartoon style that wraps around the bottle and really does tell a story.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, what does it taste like then? Well, as you might imagine, it is close in style and flavour profile to its more mainstream cousin, but in general makes for a paler coloured red wine, but still with plenty of fruit and a lighter structure. Some say as it ages (we are yet to see) there is a hint of Burgundian Pinot Noir about it. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span> There is not much Lledoner Pelut around at all and my 1000 bottles were snapped up as quickly as you can say Hairy Grenache. I do have a couple of cases put to one side for members of the Domaine Jones Wine Club and visitors to the Domaine. But I'm getting back out into that vineyard to start combing those leaves for next years vintage.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I opened the shutters this morning there is no sign of the <b>Beast from the East</b> in the village of Tuchan. Its 8° and damp, no snow, no frost, no ice - almost spring like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In France the cold snap is called the <b>Moscow Paris</b>, not nearly as catchy as the Beast from the East, but even the Moscow Paris didn't go via Tuchan.</span></div>
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We did have a flurry of snow yesterday and had it continued for more than 2 minutes we may have been snowed in but by 10 am it had all melted.<br />
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I am not complaining at all even if I feel we are missing out on all the action. But for the vines a little bit of snow is not a bad thing at this time of year and at least it stops them from springing into action too early and then being damaged by a late frost like last year.<br />
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The almond blossom is out here and it is so beautiful so I am sending a little bit of southern warmth with the thoughts of warmer days that are just around the corner. I am sorry for the blue skies but the blossom does look a bit like snow flakes.<br />
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My definite wine recommendation to beat the Beast would be a delicious bottle of Domaine Jones Fitou (any vintage from 2010 onwards) if possible drunk in front of an open fire with a wholesome stew. <br />
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This is such a simple recipe but so full of flavour it makes a meal in itself.<br />
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2 courgettes - cut in half length wise and the seeds scooped out<br />
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4 sun dried tomatoes<br />
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12 pitted black olives<br />
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Fill each courgette half with as much of the chopped mixture as you can and top with parmesan cheese.<br />
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Put in the preheated oven at 180° for about 20 minutes or until the courgettes are soft.<br />
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I added small cherry tomatoes in the baking dish and some fennel.<br />
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This went extremely well with <a href="http://domainejones.com/product/carignan-gris/" target="_blank">Les Perles de Jones Carignan Gris</a> 2016.<br />
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<br />www.domainejones.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816286234645175322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5833230219966937451.post-30757118868098340362018-01-26T10:46:00.000+01:002018-01-26T10:46:10.948+01:00Oven baked Pork with vineyard herbs I am absolutely loving the Mediterranean diet - it's not really a diet but a new way of eating and the recipes are really easy and quick. My favourite meal this week was oven baked pork with herbs that I could just go and pick from my vineyard.<br />
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My recipes will give you the general idea of what I did. This was enough for 2<br />
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Handful of fresh rosemary<br />
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Handful of fresh thyme<br />
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Handful of fresh parsley<br />
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1/2 garlic bulb<br />
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Tablespoon of dijon mustard<br />
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Whizz it all round in the blender (except the meat) to try and get a smooth paste - mine wasn't very smooth and it doesn't' really matter.<br />
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Spread it on the pork chop and bake in the oven at 180° until the pork is cooked through (about 25 minutes depending on the thickness of the pork).<br />
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At the same time I added some halved cherry tomatoes to the baking tray sprinkled with salt and crushed garlic .<br />
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Bon appétit!<br />
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This is the week that most people give up their New Year Resolutions so I thought it would be a good time to actually make mine. <br />
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I have been in a complete quandary for the last couple of months trying to decide which diet to follow to feel healthier and to shed a few kilos. All this time it has been staring me in the face - the Mediterranean diet. As I live more or less on the Mediterranean I don't know why I haven't thought about this before. I have tried other styles of cooking where it has been almost impossible to source the ingredients but surely I have everything I need for the Mediterranean diet on my doorstep? I only need to step out of my front door to find wild rosemary and thyme growing in profusion.</div>
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And you can drink wine (in moderation). As my wines are definitely from traditional grape varieties of the Mediterranean they will fit in perfectly with my good intention. <br />
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So far we have had fresh mackerel off the bbq with Les Perles de Jones Carignan Gris 2016 and Domaine Jones Grenache 2014 with stuffed peppers. Both pretty delicious combinations. I did try to capture the moment on photo but food photography is definitely not my forté.<br />
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So in 2018 I will be waving au revoir to desserts, butter and red meats and saying bonjour to fruit, olive oil and fish. Doesn't sound too bad to me!<br />
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