Maxime Magnon Corbières Rouge "Campagnes" '20

Originally from Burgundy, he trained in there and with Jean Foillard in Morgon.  He was drawn to the south where he worked in Faugeres with Didier Barral. 

When he arrived in Corbieres he realized that there was a lot of old vines but they had been beaten down by decades of chemically reliant farming.  He was fortunate to have purchased some prime parcels of old vines from abandoned plots and rents his cellar.  Rather than pull them up he spent a decade putting down hay and manure to rejuvenate the soils.  

Most of Maxime’s vineyard land is comprised of schist and limestone subsoils in the sub-appellation Hautes Corbières, bordering Fitou to the South. This is incredibly tough terrain to farm in, as there is virtually no topsoil, just pure rock and garrigue which are extremely steep.

Maxime’s Campgnes is 100% Carignan from two parcels that have two different soil types (Clay and Limestone) from vines that are over 100 years old.  Grapes from field blend are picked by hand and fermented together whole-cluster.  The wine is then aged in previously used Burgundian barrels from a producer in Chassagne-Montrachet.