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Prat Bibal - our most beautiful vineyard

Prat Bibal the most beautiful vineyard of La Grange; it looks like an ancient green amphitheater.

In this vineyard we harvest the grapes for our red wine Tadition Prat Bibal (called the black sheep).

The Prat Bibal vineyard is not only beautiful, it is also exemplary from an environmental point of view. It is surrounded by hedgerows and olive groves, where insects and birds abound. They protect our grapes in a very natural way by simply eating pests and pollinating the flowers of the grapes in spring.

The soil at Prat Bibal is a colorful mosaic of different rocks, which were shaken up by the Cadablès volcano directly opposite the winery ages ago. This diversity of the soil is the prerequisite for us to make quite complex, exciting wines at La Grange, such as our Prat Bibal.

La Grange is favored by nature, a true paradise!

One gold and two silver medals

The wine competition Mundus Vini awarded one gold and two silver medals to the La Grange wines.
We are especially happy about the gold medal for our Tradition Grande Cuvée Blanc IGP Pays d’Oc.
The silver medals were given to Terroir Syrah IGP Pays d’Oc and Tradition Sélection AOC Languedoc.

Of animals and men - The La Grange Tradition wines

Our predecessors at La Grange, the Sabatier family not only made wine, they also raised sheep. Even today old drystone walls and stone shelters for the shepherds bear witness of the sheep-breeding times at La Grange. There's even an old stable left.

We revisited this old tradition of sheep husbandry with our Tradition wines. Frisette, the first sheep born at La Grange in modern times takes pride of place on the labels.
We already wrote about the laborious rearing of our own little herd.

François and his son Raphael lovingly take care of all their charges, and this spring, we again had newborn lambs to enliven life on the winery.

Tradition Grande Cuvée Blanc IGP Pays d'Oc
A creamy white wine made from Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.

Tradition Grand Cuvée Rosé IGP Pays d'Oc
The three varieties Cinsault, Mourvèdre and Syrah are united in perfect harmony. An striking Rosé, perfect for summer barbecues.

Tradition Sélection IGP Pays d'Oc
Merlot and Syrah combined to charming elegance.

Tradition Pat Bibal" IGP Pays d'Oc
Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre, harvested from our most valuable vineyard: Prat Bibal. Prat Bibal is a typical wine from southern France: Powerful and imposing with dark notes of berries.

La Grange at Vinisud

This year you can find us once more at Vinisud at Montpellier.

 

 

 

 

You can look forward to:

 

Our Classique range – fruity and pleasing

 

 

Our Terroir range – The expression of prime location

 

 

Our Tradition range - Celebrating tradition

 

 

Our Castalides range – Grand wines from vineyards of excellence

Orphan at La Grange

Our sheep Susi didn't take her motherly duties very seriously: She abandoned her daughter Frisette. A surrogate father was found quickly, though. François built a small pen in his workshop and is bottle-feeding little Frisette.

The little lamb immediately understood that François is her new and most important care-giver; she follows him everywhere.

All others she tries to avoid. I'm just waiting for the day François will take his adoptee to the vineyards.

I was allowed to feed Frisette once but the little lamb isn't so much a fan of grandmothers, apparently. She returned to François immediately after the bottle was empty and together they went on their after-dinner-walk.

In honor of Frisette we will produce a new Rosé in our 'Tradition' line this year.

What the people of Berlin do well

Airports... not so much. My fellow Berliners have proven that sufficiently. But they do know how to taste wines! The four gold medals we received for our La Grange wines are ample proof of that.

These are our four winners:

La Grange Classique Rouge IGP 2013
La Grange Terroir Sauvignon IGP 2013
La Grange Terroir Merlot IGP 2013
La Grange Tradition Grande Cuvée IGP 2013

We are especially delighted about the gold medal for our new wine 'Tradition Grande Cuvée' because this was the first year we ever made it. The grapes - Chardonnay, Sauvignon and small amounts of indigenous grapes - come from excellent vineyards like 'Pabiro' and 'Champ de Monsieur'. Our winemaker Thomas Raynaud gave this wine time to develop it's personality. The jurors in Berlin were enthusiastic about the density, subtle aromas, complexity and length of the Grande Cuvée.

Tradition - new wines and a new tradition

Tradition is a new range of wines that we created this year with the old tradition of wines for festive occastions in mind. Wines the winemakers of Languedoc made for special family celebrations.

These wines came from their best vineyards, the ones with the smallest yield. They were worked with special diligence and the moment for their picking was determined very carefully.

The winemakers went to their vineyards, sampled a grape here and another one there. They separated pips from pulp, bit the pips in half and deliberately tasted their tannins and their acidity. The children were asked their opinion and the grapes were given a bit more time, maybe. Until, in the end, the juice was ripe and expressive, the pips lost all bitterness and every hint of green and the tannins were agreeable in their mouth. Then the wine for special occasions was harvested.

We liked this tradition so much that we seized the idea and created our new line of wines for special occasions.