Senat Mais Ou Est Donc Ornicar Minervois

Jean-Baptiste and Charlotte Sénat have been working this fifteen-hectare domaine in the heart of Minervois since 1996. They are located in Trausse Minervois in the foothills of the Montagne Noir. The soils here are limestone-clay and their mainly south-facing vineyards are set in the heart of the garrigue.  

They are certified organic and carry out all work by hand. Vinification takes place with minimal intervention in a mixture of large and small casks (stored underground): natural yeasts, no fining, no filtration and only a tiny bit of sulphur are the recipe for living and drinkable wines. Everything is done by gravity to avoid pumping. La Nine has a cuvaison of 16 days with pigeage and spends ten months in cuve and barrels before being bottled (by gravity) without filtration.  

Mais Ou Est Donc Ornicar is a blend of the energetic 50 year old Grenache (70%) 30 year old Syrah (20%) and 40 year old Cinsault (10%) vinified in whole bunches. Cuvaison last twelve days and then the wine goes into used barriques.

Mais Ou Est Donc Ornicar is a mnemonic phrase containing the French conjunctions (mais, ou, et, donc, or, ni, car).

A more powerful effort reminiscent of macerated fruits and dark spices and one that requires a haunch of meat or several. This wine spends six months in barrique. On many of their wines you can taste a familiar quality: blueberries, blackberries, grilled mushrooms, earth and always the garrigue aromas of wild thyme.  

Organic, natural yeast, unfined, unfiltered, low sulphur, minimal intervention, vegan/veggie.

2017

13%

75cl