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vin Maghani" |
"Une
et Mille Nuits" |
"Les
Galéjades" |
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"Maghani"
was the wine of the Magi in the poems of Omar Khayyam.
It is a selection of the best grapes from our Grenache, Syrah
and, since the 1999 vintage, Mourvèdre.
"Maghani"
is a powerful wine with fine tannins and can be laid down
to mature.
When young, it tastes of red fruit and chocolate, with aromas
of pennies. As it evolves it becomes more complex, with notes
of marello cherries, spices and tobacco.
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This
is the new name for our "Tradition" blend. Made from
the 5 traditional grape varieties of the Languedoc (Grenache,
Carignan, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Cinsault). Limestone-clay
soil.
"Une
et Mille Nuits" is a wine of great
finesse, with aromas of the garrigue and wild blackberries.
In the mouth, it is very concentrated, with silky tannins.. |
"Les
Galejades" is a wine of great richness
made from overripe grapes picked at
the beginning of december.
In 1999 we made it from Carignan, with 30 grammes of residual
sugar.
A wine with notes of figs, black fruit conserve, and of chocolate.
In the mouth, deliciously long.
Drink with foie gras with figs, a lobster or a pigeon in chocolate… |
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The
latest news |
En février, un article
pioché dans LYON MAG.COM :
Une et Mille Nuits 2004 ; le vin du mois!
"Ce mois-ci,
Pierre Tran , patron de la Cave Valmy 9°, a choisi cette
cuvée.
Une et Mille Nuits 2004 est superbe mais pas très connue,
car coincée entre 2003 et 2005, deux grandes années.
A l'oeil ce Saint Chinian a une robe noire et éclatante.
An nez, il est sauvage, riche et complexe. Un vin idéal
pour accompagner les viandes, grillées ou en sauce, et
les gibiers. Il faut le laisser en carafe au minimum 45 minutes
avant de le servir à 17-18°." |
| In the
Revue du Vin de France
"SPECIAL MILLESIME 2005" Maghani is rated among the
"exceptionally successful
wines" |
An
extract from the Prix Goncourt book by Francois WEYERGANS:
"THREE DAYS WITH MY MOTHER"
"She
took him into a bar she often visited. He ordered a bottle of
'Une et Mille Nuits', a full-bodied, tannic wine from Saint-Chinian
that he'd drunk in Paris. He tried to calculate how many months
made a thousand nights, while wondering how the 'one night'
he was living at the moment would finish up. A thousand nights
with Juliette was perhaps rather too extreme, but why not one,
now, right now?" |
Thuriès
Magazine Gastronomie – juin 2005
Saint-Chinian « Le Vin Maghani » 2001
– Domaine Canet Valette
"…among the most expressive wines, I was stopped
in my tracks by a little jewel made by the masterful hands
of Marc and Sophie Valette. Right by Cessenon-sur-Orb, the
Canet-Valette domain comprises 18 hectares planted on perfectly
sited limestone-clay soils…Each stage from grape to
glass is the object of minute personal attention. The vines
are treated with plant tisanes, the grapes rigorously sorted,
picked by hand, and given long pigeage (breaking the cap)
not just with the feet but Marc's body, then half the wine
matured in big barrels or smaller barriques. In the bottling
there is neither filtering nor fining…Finally, you are
tasting an exceptional wine. In the glass you can scarcely
see through the colour, black with violet reflections. After
you've aerated the wine, an aroma of oriental spices rises
from the glass, distinctive mineral notes of hot stones, black
fruit liqueur, vanilla and musk. It would be hard to rival
this wine in the mouth. Everything is in harmony, concentrated,
remarkably silky, mineral and wonderfully long. A great work
of art!"
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thewinedoctor.com
- 2005
Domaine Canet Valette is run by Marc Valette, a young vigneron
who worked his first vintage in 1992. Marc's first exposure
to wine was through his grandfather, who had tended vines and
made wine in Minervois. In 1975 Marc and his father began to
purchase vineyards, starting with an overgrown and neglected
11 ha, the first task being to rescue these vines from the weeds
and encroaching vegetation. Like many, the grapes they grew
went to the local co-operative, but in 1992 they rented a winery
and vinified the wine themselves. Marc's passion for his wine
grew, and in 1998 he invested a considerable amount of money
in building his own winery and cellar, equipped with stainless
steel for fermentation on the upper level, the wine being run
to the lower barrel cellar by gravity. In the meantime, the
domain has grown in size to 18 ha on limestone-clay soil just
outside the village of Cessenon.
Practices at Domaine Canet Valette lean towards the artisanal.
The carefully tended Carignan, Cinsaut, Grenache, Syrah and
Mourvèdre are picked later than other producers, with
yields between 18 and 30 hl/ha. They are fermented with extended
cuvaison, sometimes for months, and with repeated pigeage, and
it's not unknown for a bare-skinned Valette to jump into the
vat and achieve this with his own foot. The style is one of
maximum flavour, extraction, concentration and tannin, and the
wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined. There are two wonderfully
named cuvées of St Chinian produced here: Le Vin Maghani,
named after a festival in the Rubáiyát of Omar
Kháyyam, which is Syrah and Grenache, and Une et Mille
Nuits, a more wide-ranging blend.
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