Complex, rich and full bodied with flavours of crushed black fruits.

100% Merlot

Food pairing:  Traditional cooking, spicy dishes, sauce meats, game and cold-cuts.

Serving temperature:  17-18°C 

Tasting notes:

This wine has a very deep colour, almost black.

Complex, rich, and full bodied, has flavours of crushed black fruits (ripe blackberries, black currant, cherries), jam and cooked fruits with hints of spices (cinnamon, thyme).

On the palate, this wine is round, fat and long («velvety») with matured tannins at the end.

It is a well-balanced and easy drinking wine.

Soil: 

This Merlot is a blend of wines coming from different origins of the Pays d’Oc area.

Soils are of 2 types : acidic soils with shingles in the valleys (which give a smokey flavour to the wines), and clay-limestone soils on slopes (which give fatter wines).

Vines have an average age of 10 years and are pruned according to the «Gobelet» (free standing) and «Cordon de Royat» methods (trellised).

Yield is relatively low: about 50 hectolitres per hectare.

Winemaking:

The winemaking process for this Merlot consists of a relatively long maceration and a little carbonic maceration for the fruit. 

A part of the final cuvée is aged in contact with oak for 6 to 9 months.

La Cour des Dames wines, 

hailing from different Pays d’Oc terroirs, pay homage to an

illustrious period in Occitan culture.

The troubadours, celebrated poet-musicians, devoted themselves to lyric art and courted

ladies. 

Using their oratorical talents at sumptuous banquets served in their honour, they

also introduced their audiences to wine tasting.

By combining wines, gastronomy, music and poetry they were the precursors of a certain

Mediterranean art of living that has lasted to the present day.