Petit Ours Brun 2022 - Domaine du Coulet

Petit Ours Brun - Domaine du Coulet

The Petit Ours Brun is a fresh and powerful red wine that combines the strength of the syrahs of the south to the freshness and aroma of those in the north. The grapes come from 50 year old vines grown in biodynamic on clay and limestone soils, able to express the best fruit of Syrah. Manual harvest, and in the cellar the grapes are de-stemmed but not pressed so as to limiting too much extraction and obtaining a gourmand wine, elegant and very digestible. Fermentation is spontaneous with only indigenous yeasts in cement tanks. The refinement continues for 9 months in the same containers. The Petit Ours Brun has a ruby ​​red color. Nose that develops linearly on red-fleshed fruits, with slightly spicy notes. On the palate it is fresh, full-bodied, elegant, balanced and well-defined, of excellent quality. 80,000 bottles produced..

Service

We taste it at a temperature of 16/18 ° in the tulip glass. A wine to be drunk immediately but will express its best in a few years.

Pairings

Petit Ours Brun is a whole meal, it goes well with classic meat-based second courses. Roasts, seasoned cheeses and mixed meats.

Cellar: Domaine du Coulet

The Domaine du Coulet is located in the town of Cornas, on the Côtes du Rhône hills. A great interpreter of the southern Rhône, the Domaine was acquired by Matthieu's grandfather, the current owner, at the end of the Second World War. Today it stretches for 18 hectares of vineyards planted on the hills dominated by granite for the Cornas and limestone for the Côtes du Rhône. The vineyards are cultivated with Syrah, Roussanne, Marsanne and other typical varieties of the area, and as often happens in this part of the Rhone valley, it is a patchwork of tiny vines and the wines are the result of assemblages aimed at enhancing a non-unique terroir. To favor all this the vineyards are bred in a biodynamic regime, with the use of homeopathic infusions, the sulfur-based treatments are carried out with some powders from a mineral and non-oil source, while the land is worked with mules and horses. In the cellar the winemaking is delicate to let the wine be able to express its territory and its vintage because, as Matthieu states, its purpose is to create 100% grape wines, and therefore it is up to us only not to spoil it. The tendency of Domaine du Coulet is to direct the wines style towards finesse, freshness and elegance.