Domain Durban: Muscat Beaumes de Venise

• FOUNDED IN 1159 THE DOMAIN SITS ON A HILLSIDE PLATEAU OVERLOOKING THE VILLAGE OF BEAUMES-DE-VENICE. SINCE THE SIXTIES THE LEYDIER FAMILY HAS TAKEN OVER THE ESTATE IMPLEMENTING MANY PRACTICES THAT HAVE BROUGHT THE DOMAIN INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION AND AFFECTION.
• THE GRAPES ARE HAND HARVEST AND CAREFULLY SORTED AT THE VINE TO ELIMINATE THOSE THAT ARE NOT RIPE ENOUGH OR HAVE BEEN DAMAGED.
• THE COLLECTED GRAPES ARE THEN SEPARATED AND MACERATED - A PROCESS IN WHICH THE GRAPES ARE CRUSHED AND STEEPED IN JUICE FOR SEVERAL DAYS OR EVEN WEEKS - DETERMINING THE COLOR, FLAVOR, TANNIN CONTENT AND AROMA OF THE WINE.
• AFTER MACERATION, THE GRAPES ARE FERMENTED IN TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED STAINLESS-STEEL TANKS.
• THE SLOPED VINEYARDS ARE SITUATED ON SOIL COMPOSED OF A MIXTURE OF TRIASSIC (40%) AND CLAY-LIMESTONE (60%) LENDING MINNERALITY COMPLEXITY TO THE RICH, FRUITY WINES.
• NOTE: TRIASSIC SOILS ARE SOILS FORMED JUST PRIOR TO THE JURASSIC PERIOD AND CONSIST OF EVAPORITES (WATER-SOLUBLE MINERAL SEDIMENTS THAT RESULT FROM THE EVAPORATION OF BODIES OF SURFICIAL WATER. EVAPORITES ARE CONSIDERED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS) AND RED BED SANDSTONE (STRATA OF REDDISH-COLORED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS DEPOSITED IN HOT CLIMATES UNDER OXIDIZING CONDITIONS. THE RED COLOR COMES FROM IRON OXIDE IN THEIR MINERAL STRUCTURE).