Les Vignerons du Luc

The DGC is a source of pride for President Lionel Asin and the cooperative’s 50 members: “this recognition of quality, expertise, typicity and complexity accentuated by the great diversity in our soil. This designation puts what we already knew into words, and it’s important for us to share this originality and get our name on the map.”

Lionel Asin also appreciates that the challenge was met as a group, between “united wine-makers with a real team spirit, which allowed us to see this lengthy project through to the end. We are all imbued with the Côtes de Provence identity and want to further open the market in a qualitative way.”

The 40 hectares of Notre-Dame des Anges vines are located by the Plaine des Maures boundary of its total area, with soil primarily made of sandstone and sand, where the grapes used in Baleti Manifi are produced. In a subtle balance of Grenache (around 60%) and Cinsault (the remaining 40% or so), that wine is a “delicate, elegant rosé with a bouquet of white fruit and a generous mouthfeel in which viscosity, citrus and other fruit intermingle, creating a delightful aromatic power across the board. All of this may of course vary slightly depending on the year, the harvest, the climate, and so on. There is always a degree of uncertainty, discovery and evolution, which is what makes our wines so charming, but also demands a great command of the whole process. It’s truly a wine-maker’s wine!”