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The winery has 3,000 hl of concrete and fibre-glass vats featuring a temperature control system. It is equipped with micro-oxygenation equipment to enhance the maturing process in the vats.	The winery has 5,000 hl of temperature-controlled stainless-steel vats to which must also be added the air-conditioned barrel cellar with more than 200 barrels as well as four 50-hectolitre tuns made of oak. They are equipped with micro-oxygenation sets to enhance the maturing process in vats as well as in barrels.


The monitoring of the plots of vines carried out all year long and the tasting of the grapes allow us to accurately determine the date on which the grapes will be ripe. The various plots are therefore harvested at the optimal moment and the grapes are vinified separately so as to preserve their specific character and personality. So as to bring out all the character of our terroir, we leave it up to the yeast that is already present naturally in the grapes to do its work, and we never add commercially-produced yeast. The more supple, generous wines are matured for 12 to 18 months in vats. The more concentrated wines are generally matured in barrels, where they spend at least twelve months before being blended and left for another six months in the large wooden tuns. We use only barrels made with French oak. Unlike "Caprice d'Adrien", matured in new Bordeaux barrels, "Mons Aureolus" is matured in barrels that have already been used for one to three wines and which come from the greatest Bordeaux châteaux.


We have a new bottling and labelling line with a capacity of 3,000 bottles/hour. Most of the time, we bottle the wine and cork the bottles so as to have the best possible quality control and to work as flexibly as possible.