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Guillaume Boussens it's 130 kg of teasing smile, tender heart, joviality, but also strong, a hard worker, who exudes rare precision and rigor in his wines. A “high altitude winegrower”, named Guillaume Boussens and his Dernacueillette estate. A former boxer, it was here in a preserved green setting located in the Hautes Corbières that he decided to take over the highest estate in the appellation (altitude 360 – 690 m)!
UNIQUE TERROIR
Nowadays, 14 hectares of vines flourish behind Mont Tauch. It is one of the highest mountains in the Corbières, it protects the plots from maritime entrances and it creates a unique micro-climate, called climatic shadow which brings a lot of freshness to the wines. This forgotten terroir is composed of red (ferruginous), pink (Magnesian), black (Tungsten), and blue crystalline shales.
MINDFULNESS
PRACTICES
The yield is naturally limited (15-20 hectoliters/ha), with physical maintenance of the plots due to its geographical profile. Here the Carignan, Syrah and Grenache, the three Musketeer grape varieties from the Domaine de Dernacueillette vineyard, are all harvested by hand to fully express them.
MINDFULNESS
PRACTICES
In the cellar he leaves nothing to chance, his vinifications are meticulous, and the wines have a tension and minerality like no other estate in the region. One of the greatest winegrowers in Corbières and Languedoc without a doubt! He creates wines capable of competing with the greatest wines!
2 stars - RVF Guide Vert 2024
“Miraculously preserved, these terroirs benefit from an exceptional climatic freshness, as well as an equally astonishing geological diversity”
“The wines: very salivating and slender”
DERNACUEILLETTE WINE LIST
LE P'TIT DERNA
65% Syrah - 25% Carignan - 10% Grenache aged 18 months in steel tank | Pays de Cucugnan
DOMAINE DE DERNACUEILLETTE
55% Syrah - 35% Carignan - 10% Grenache aged 24 months in steel tank | Corbières
CUVÉE ANNE-FLEUR
60% Syrah - 30% Carignan - 10% Grenache aged in a 5000l Austrian oak cask | Corbières
CHÂTEAU LES HAUTS DE DERNACUEILLETTE
50% Syrah - 25% Carignan - 25% Grenache aged 24 months in steel tank | Corbières
CUVÉE JACQUES
70% Syrah - 20% Carignan - 10% Grenache aged 26 months in steel tank | Corbières
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