Nicolas Carmarans - Mauvais Temps - 2019

🍇Fer Servadou

Farming: Organic and Biodynamic 

Region: Aveyron IGP, France 🇫🇷 

Notes: The vineyard is co-planted with Fer, Negret de Banhard, and a touch of Cab Franc, near Nicola’s house. The vines are about 30 years old and look over the Selves river on their steep cliff. Mauvais temps or bad times is a century old name for this place where it never rains, so you never get a day off! for Vinification, one week maceration with whole bunches, gentle pressing, blending of free-run and press juices, and elevage in old barrique. The wine is bottled in June 2020. Not fined or filtered, either. 1mg so2 at bottling.

I often think about my first vineyard – the Mauvais Temps – which translates to bad weather. The plot was abandoned for nine years, and it took two years to rebuild the entire vineyard. Two men had to pull out grass, bring stones to build walled terraces, and carry soil to where it was needed. That is what we call rebuilding landscape! -Nicolas