L'Anglore

In just a few years, the domaine de went from obscurity to the spotlight, and now every knowledgeable enthusiast is eager to get their hands on the wines of Eric Pfifferling, whose production has continued to improve. Until 2002, Eric Pfifferling was in fact a beekeeper and winemaker, but he brought his grapes to the cooperative. Then the severe floods of 2002 swept away his beehives, and he decided to leave the cooperative cellar and sign his first cuvées of L'Anglore. He chose organic farming (according to ECOCERT specifications), abandoning chemical treatments. The soil is worked to preserve the life and balance between "vines" and "weeds," adapted to each terroir and to climatic conditions. The vines are essentially planted with grenache, cinsault, clairette, carignan, mourvèdre, syrah, and bourboulenc. With his 2 sons having since joined him, the domaine de l'Anglore has continued to develop, and even though it is located primarily in the AOC Tavel appellation (an AOC reserved exclusively for Rhône rosé), the domaine de's red wines are produced as Vin de France and Lirac. The harvest is done by hand and the grapes are placed in small crates. After a maceration period, they are vinified as whole bunches by carbonic maceration. The wines obtained are neither filtered nor mechanically pumped, so as to respect and highlight their natural, living characteristics. His low yields do not prevent him from producing perfectly balanced rosé wines, sometimes considered among the finest rosés in France. Far from the pale rosés of Provence, the Tavel from the domaine de l'Anglore is perfectly suited to its sandy-silty terroirs, with a particularly distinctive colour tending toward a light ruby red. Generous yet subtle and full-bodied, the Tavel de l'Anglore is singular — neither red nor rosé, the colour of a clairet in fact — but when you taste it, you can only fall for it: it is dense and deep, yet also extremely fresh. This Tavel rosé can be kept for 2 to 4 years. The Cuvée Nizon is made from a base of old, century-old black Grenache vines as well as a little Cinsault, Clairette, and Aramon; the vinification is done with whole bunches, under CO², then in concrete tanks or demi-muids, with very little sulphur before bottling. It is fair to say that l'Anglore offers refined and expressive cuvées, essential for lovers of natural wine and gastronomic rosé.

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