Château Terrasson

Gironde

Oxymore Orange

Vin de France

$ EUR

Release Price

Drink Window

10.5%

ABV

3.6

pH

2.3

TA

RS

Growing Conditions

Clay-limestone

Organic viticulture, with limited tillage and grass cover

Single spur pruning (guyot)

Planting density : 5 263 vines / ha

Use of sulphur, copper, biodynamic preparations, herbal infusions (netle, horstail...), talc, clay

Harvest

Hand harvested on 24 September 2021

Bottling

Roughing filtration before bottling

Glass bottles manufactured within 30 km the lightest possible: 450g for the 75 cl

Natural cork from Portugal with no plastic componants inside

Label made from recycled paper, printed without foil or gilding

Unbleached kraft cardboard boxes with minimal ink

Winemaking

Whole bunch maceration for 21 days

Indigenous yeasts

Aging

Old barrels for 20 months

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Alongside our Bordeaux range, we also make « free expression » wines from the same terroir, with different vinifications, which produce wines of a very particular style. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that consists in unexpectedly combining two words with contradictory meanings. On our typical Bordeaux terroir, we create wines that go against Bordeaux classicism. Our orange Oxymore is distinguished by : – a highly original type of vinification (white grapes vinified like reds)

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