At the very core of Xavier Vignon’s expertise lies a well-oiled machine combined with lashings of experience, practice and intuition. The art of blending fascinated him from an early age and, over the years, he has turned it into an art form, daring to try out new associations, transcending codes and offering new, innovative techniques.
Blending is the very cornerstone in the creation of a wine and the stage that determine’s the wine’s structure. Whether blending origins, parcels, soils, varietals and vintages… ‘It is at this point that everything is built and the work of art is shaped, in keeping with all of the factors that we have determined prior to that point’.
This Arcane is a blend of 90% old Grenache and 10% Syrah. The blend is a multiple vintage of 2015-2016-2017 and 2018 (About 1/4 each).
The selection has been made from the terroirs of garrigues from the south part of the appellation and from the area of the Coteaux of Miocene (Montagne du Ventabren).
This Cairanne wine is all about purity or how to keep the wine as it was originally at its creation. Without disturbing or adding to the original version through traditional aging. The vinification and the aging is made in Wine Globes which are small glass tanks of 200 liters. This wine is part of the wider project at Xavier vignon of search of purity.
Ageing potential 15 to 20 years
