Armoria (château)

Information

Description

Love and Harmony...Armoria

If our vines are a bit like arteries of life, the estate, and my family, have been its heart since 1825, and each rehabilitation project undertaken over the past several years diffuses a little more each day the energy needed to continue to write history and enhance the place.

I always have in mind the history of this estate, once a place of life and sharing. Several families lived together, in harmony in this 18th century building, protective, surrounded by vines, vegetable gardens and animals.

9 hectares of vines, including 4.5 in the Minervois Appellation, 20 hectares of fields, and 20 hectares of woods in "the hill" surround Château Armoria. It is this unit, conducted in organic farming, which allows us to work on biodiversity.
Located in Laure-Minervois, on the foothills of the Montagne Noire, the estate offers on a small perimeter, diverse soils: very clayey on some plots, and clay-limestone or sandy on others. Thanks to this terroir, freshness is the main characteristic of Armoria wines.

I work with an agroecological approach, in harmony with the living.

Everything is done to allow the balance and life of the soil: plant cover with a grassing of cereals and legumes, respect for the soil with minimum plowing and pastoralism, with reception of ewes and their lambs on all plots. Nest boxes are also there to accommodate tits and bats, and trees and shrubs have been reintroduced into hedges around the vines.

The majority of the vines are made up of old heritage and emblematic grape varieties of the region: Carignan, Grenache, Mourvèdre, supplemented by Syrah, are between 40 and 65 years old, and alongside them, the young plants of white Carignan, gray, white Grenache, white and gray Terret will make the new white vintages of tomorrow. An atypical grape variety in Minervois, Ugni, from the South-West, is added as a touch of originality in the range.

My desire is to maintain these old vines which come, through their roots, to draw deep into the soil the nutrients which offer "the terroir", and give the richness and aromatic diversity of my wines. They are also, by their strength and anchoring to the earth, a solution to drought, far from the unfortunately increasing irrigation practices. They are earned and require hard work of cleaning the vines, staking, braiding, without pre-pruning, and manual harvesting.

Appellation

Minervois AOP

Région viticole

Languedoc-Roussillon

Country

France

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Production mode

Year of certification

2018-01-01

Quality approach

Vin Méthode Nature

Packaging

Glass bottle

Bulk wine

Product type

Still wine

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Distribution networks

Current customer(s) type

Café / Hotel / Restaurant

Caviste

Exportateur

Current countries

Allemagne

France

Japon

Type of target customer(s)

Cafe / Hotel / Restaurant

Wine merchant

Broker / Commercial agent

Retailer

Organic Retailer

E-commerce / Mail order

Exporter

Wholesaler

Importer

Sommelier

Target country(ies)

Belgium

Denmark

France

Italy

Swiss

Suede

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Website

Visit the Julien Salles website

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Main contact

First name

Julien

Name

SALLES

Function

Producteur / Productrice