http://vinosseur.com/naturally-speaking/ ...spontaneously fermenting Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://vinosseur.com/naturally-speaking/comment-page-1/#comment-189 vinosseur» Blog Archive » Clos Roche Blanche - A Producer Profile Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:37:53 +0000 http://vinosseur.com/?p=1258#comment-189 [...] The vinification is partly in the cellar, and partly in a cave carved out of the rock (see photo above) close to the vineyards, this helps them to deal with the harvest (done by hand, of course) without much of a delay.  Only indigenous yeasts, no chaptalisation, no use of enzymes or other additives, only a modest use of sulfur when racking the wine (they use CO2 when they bottle) and no filtration. No oak barriques are used, only steel and large format  used barrles for the Cuvée Côt.  This is quite close to my definition of totally natural. [...] [...] The vinification is partly in the cellar, and partly in a cave carved out of the rock (see photo above) close to the vineyards, this helps them to deal with the harvest (done by hand, of course) without much of a delay.  Only indigenous yeasts, no chaptalisation, no use of enzymes or other additives, only a modest use of sulfur when racking the wine (they use CO2 when they bottle) and no filtration. No oak barriques are used, only steel and large format  used barrles for the Cuvée Côt.  This is quite close to my definition of totally natural. [...]

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