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In the Aude, 300 bottles of white wine will spend nine months in the pond of Leucate, before being marketed. An original way to preserve and age wine.
In Leucate (Aude), a special cargo is in the nets of an oyster farmer. Not oysters, but bottles of wine. Laurent Maynadier, winegrower from the region, is preparing to immerse his wine in a pond. It will soon be fifteen years that he has been doing this with Lucas Jaulent, oyster farmer. These are 300 bottles of white muscat, grown near the lake, which will spend some time between three and five meters deep for nine months.
The bottles will therefore swing in their net according to the elements. “It’s both to have a little pressure on the cork, a gas exchange which is different (…). It’s a bit like taking a wine to the mountains where it’s the opposite and you have a depression”, explains the winemaker. According to them, this makes the wine rounder and softer, with notes of iodized freshness. A Muscat made to pair with seafood.