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For his Laudun village red and white, and his regional Cotes du Rhone, Luc Pélaquié selects his grapes from his vineyards near the village of Saint Victor la Coste, within the Laudun appellation.
Near a Romanesque chapel, sheltered by the cyprus trees or watched over by the village's old medieval castle, the grapes ripen until they are delicately harvested by hand. |
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 The soils in the Pélaquié vineyards are here composed of sand and fossilized sediments, often on terraced slopes.
For the red wines, Luc Pélaquié uses his supple grenache grapes, and the strong-scented cinsault, the richly aromatic syrah, the full-bodied mourvèdre, the carignan and its strong color, with a little counoise noire.
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For the white wines, he balances the smooth and flowery clairette, the well-rounded viognier with its violet-and-honey bouquet, which on aging turns to peach-and-apricot, the strongly flavored grenache blanc and the local marsanne, with its strong flavor of flowers and hazelnut. |
 All of these elements - soils, climate, varieties of vine - are the basis of all the Cotes du Rhone wines, but there remains the mystery of a well-mastered balance of aromas and flavors that produces a top wine, a product resulting from the mix of knowledge and passion for the art of wine-making that is Luc Pélaquié. |
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