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Technical Details
- 80% grenache, 10% mourvedre, 7% syrah, 3% cinsault
- Catherine Armenier
- France
- Rhône Valley
- Southern Rhône
- Châteauneuf-du-Pape
- Certified Organic and Biodynamic Practices
- 4-5 weeks with Native Yeast in concrete vats
- aged for 18 months in concrete vats and several foudres or 350L barrels
- 14.5%
- 2,350 cases
Domaine de Marcoux Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2021 (Magnum 1.5L)
Certified Organic and Biodynamic Practices
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Records place the Armenier family in Châteauneuf-du-Pape for roughly 700 years, with five branches of the family already recorded by 1344. In 1995, at a time when it wasn't easy for women to run a winery, sisters Sophie and Catherine Armenier took over Domaine de Marcoux, with Catherine managing the vines and Sophie leading the winemaking. Under their stewardship, the estate became known for old-vine Grenache grown on sandy and clay-limestone soils, farmed biodynamically since the early 1990s – one of the first in the appellation to do so.
The 2021 comes from a vintage shaped by spring frost that cut yields, followed by conditions that pushed the harvest later and longer than usual. It's been called a return to the classic, more austere vintages of the pre-2000s, demonstrating more lift, more structure, and a leaner, more mineral-driven core.