Gift Set Three Plots - Aigle Royal Chardonnay, Le Viala and L'Hospitalitas

Aigle Royal Chardonnay 2020

Domaine de l'Aigle is a 47-hectare estate magnificently situated in the northernmost part of the Haute Vallée de l'Aude vineyard, between 250 and 500 metres above sea level. We produce wines of great finesse made from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

Le Viala 2020

Le Viala comes from a plot at Château Laville Bertrou, located on an exceptional terroir within the highly qualitative Livinière appellation (officially recognised in 1998), synonymous with great wines from the Languedoc.

This extraordinary terroir, acquired by Gérard Bertrand in 1997, produces powerful and characterful wines that have collected numerous awards. Benefiting from a semi-arid Mediterranean climate with a temperate winter variant, the Viala faces due south on the heights of the village of La Livinière at approximately 120 m above sea level. The soil consists of a mosaic of stripped marls, combined with calcareous sandstone and compact limestone dating from the Eocene (Tertiary era).

This type of terroir naturally limits the production of each vine, and thanks to deep rooting allows it to withstand low rainfall and water stress. The slow ripening of the grapes is thus favoured by the abundant sunshine. The three grape varieties blended for this cuvée express in a complementary and nuanced way this unique terroir that is the Viala.

L'Hospitalitas 2021

Overlooking the Mediterranean from around a hundred metres, the Château l'Hospitalet vineyard benefits from exceptional climatic conditions (semi-arid Mediterranean climate with a mild winter variant). The heat and sunshine, tempered by the altitudinal gradient, offer possibilities for slow ripening from September to October, favourable to aromatic expression and the finesse of the tannins. The Hospitalitas plot, located at the heart of the vineyard, at the foot of a 30-metre cliff that protects it from the north wind, benefits from a microclimate.

The exceptional character of this cuvée stems from the fact that the plot sits across the two terroirs that make up our vineyard: the marly-limestone soils of the Gargasian, rich in fossils, which provide the vines with water throughout the summer despite the absence of summer rainfall; the Mediterranean red soils of the Barremian, formed on compact bluish-grey limestone reclaimed from the garrigue, which allow the production of rich and concentrated wines. The blend of these two grape varieties gives this cuvée a beautiful aromatic expression, a liveliness and a remarkable ageing potential, with fruit and roundness.

• Chardonnay
• Syrah
• Carignan
• Mourvèdre
• Grenache Noir