Domaine la Madura
To see Cyril and Nadia Bourgne at Domaine de Madura in their smart cellar in the hills above St Chinian. It was high time for an update as we had not met since I was researching Wines of the Languedoc back in 2017. So the obvious question was: what’s new? First we talked about grape varieties. Cyril has been quietly campaigning for the inclusion of some of the old Languedoc varieties in the appellation of St Chinian for some fifteen years and this is finally going to happen, as cépages accessoires . So for red wines you can now plant Piquepoul Noir, and Rivairenc, and with more constraints Counoise, Marselan, Morrastel, Oeillade and Terret noir. And for whites the cépages accessoires are now Bourboulenc, Carignan B lanc, Clairette, Grenache Gris, Viognier and with tighter controls Piquepoul Blanc and Terret blanc. The new decree will be less rigid with regard to permitted percentages. Cyril observed that Syrah and Grenache h...
