Domaine des Creisses Vin de Pays d'Oc Les Creis ses 2020

This family owned, founded in the 19th century, vinified each year since 1904 in its beautiful and vast cellar Languedocienne.Trois generations succeed one another in the twentieth siècle.En 1998 Philippe Chesnelong resumes this family tradition with the ambition to express all the potential of the terroir and reveal a great wine méditerranée.Il is helped in this endeavor by Louis Mitjavile, his cousin, who brings his talent for winemaking and vineyard élevage.Au Bernard Seguier work with each evolution with enthusiasm that gives a taste of perfection. The field includes 15 hectares of vines, scrub, woods and truffle oaks.

The local wine appellation d'Oc is one of the French regions producing the most wine country. The vines enjoy soils and diverse climates since they are located between mountains, oceans and valleys. The appellation produces over 60% of French wine country, with an annual production of 5.3 million hectoliters in 2009. The vines are based on clay-limestone soil, gravel and shale sands. The grape varieties are present: Carignan, Cinsault, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Petit Verdot.

Deployed on several departments (Gard, Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Herault), Languedoc-Roussillon vineyards is 42,800 hectares of vineyards and 1.8 million hectoliters of wine each year. The Greeks planted the first vines in the fifth century BC. Then the Romans cultivated and, until the seventeenth century, the vineyards experienced a great outpouring. Phylloxera destroyed in 1863, the vineyards of the country. In the twentieth century, thanks to a greater number of exploitable hectares, the wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon became a more French vineyards. It enjoys a Mediterranean climate, with hot and dry summers and milder winters. The area is not prone to heavy rainfall. Tramontana dry vines and preserves diseases. The climate therefore promotes the cultivation of vines. Yet for years the reputation of the wines of the region, due to lack of product quality was poor. The noble varieties appeared in 1970, with a revival in this region. Current varieties are Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Cinsault, Carignan, Mourvèdre, Merlot, Muscat, Clairette, white Grenache, Bourboulenc, Picpoul and mauzac. The vines are based on various soils: limestone scree, shale, marl, sandstone, sandy clay soil. This diversity enriched the soils and the AOC that offer the region.