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Agriculture
 Since the purchase of “Grande Maison” in 1990, the Schedule of conditions of European organic Agriculture is respected. This is verified, every year, by an independent organization (ECOCERT, BP 47 32600 Isle the Jordan), which gives the possibility of using the mention “Wine worked out starting from grapes resulting from Biological Agriculture”. This step was selected at the beginning from a qualitative point of view, the addition of chemicals having to be translated with short or long term by a “depreciation” of the potentialities of the soil. Since the departure thus, the vines are worked in the old style, i.e. without weeding, artificial fertiliser, any pesticide of synthesis.
With these traditional techniques, the contributions of the Biodynamic method have been added since 1997. The works are carried out in agreement with the lunar cycles and liquid manure spreadings of plants (nettle, horsetail, fern, 501, 500) several times in the season are carried out. The total maintenance of the vineyard requires a large human investment because to usual work is added a neat "épamprage" inside the vines, a “vintage in green” if necessary, a manual cleaning of each vine after the passage of the power tools to weed and a manual stripping of the 2 faces in August. All these techniques associated with quality and the soil give an exceptional precocity to the maturity of the grape what is often determining to carry out high-class wines.
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