Clos Marie
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Le Clos Marie est la référence absolue des vins rouges du Pic Saint-Loup et l'un des grands vins bio du Languedoc. Fondé en 1995 par Françoise Julien et Christophe Peyrus à Lauret sur les vignes de la grand-mère Marie, conduit en bio depuis ses origines sur vingt-deux hectares de calcaires et marnes, il produit des vins de garde du Pic Saint-Loup d'une finesse et d'une précision qui ont hissé l'appellation au rang des grandes références des vins du Languedoc-Roussillon. Ses cuvées Simon, Les Glorieuses et le blanc Manon figurent parmi les vins rares du Languedoc les plus recherchés. Aux côtés du Mas Bruguière, le Clos Marie incarne l'excellence du Pic Saint-Loup. Parmi les grands millésimes on retrouve les vins de 2011 2015, 2020, 2021 et 2023

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Clos Marie, a great wine from the Pic Saint-Loup

Clos Marie was born from Françoise Julien's grandmother, who owned a few hectares of vines on the heights of Lauret, at the heart of the AOP Pic Saint-Loup. Like many small Languedoc vineyards of the time, the grapes went to the local cooperative — a convenient practice that allowed for no qualitative expression of their own.

In 1995, Françoise Julien and her partner Christophe Peyrus decided to change everything. They took over the family vineyard, settled in Lauret, and immediately chose to go organic. Within a few vintages, Clos Marie established itself as one of the leading addresses of the AOP Pic Saint-Loup and one of the great organic wines of the Languedoc.

AOP Pic Saint-Loup: the terroir of the freshest red wines in the Languedoc

To understand the red wines of the Pic Saint-Loup, one must understand what makes the appellation unique within the Languedoc vineyard. The eponymous peak rises to 658 metres, forty kilometres north of Montpellier. The vines benefit from cool nights throughout the season, a diurnal temperature range that preserves the natural acidity of the grapes, and winds that dry the bunches and limit disease. It is this exceptional climatic context that explains why the great wines of the Pic Saint-Loup possess a tannic finesse and aromatic freshness that the lowland appellations of the Languedoc rarely replicate.

The Clos Marie vineyard extends across twenty-three hectares in Lauret on calcareous and marly soils scattered with scree. The vines are tended with entirely manual soil work. The grape varieties are rooted in the Pic Saint-Loup tradition: Grenache Noir, Syrah, Mourvèdre, and Carignan for the reds, complemented by Cinsault and Counoise for freshness. In white, a palette of native varieties — Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris, Roussanne, Clairette, Rolle — that give Clos Marie its most singular age-worthy white wines from the Pic Saint-Loup.

Complantation and massale selection: the organic viticulture of Clos Marie

Among the practices that most clearly distinguish Clos Marie within the AOP Pic Saint-Loup, two deserve to be highlighted. Massale selection — the choice and multiplication of the best individual vines from the estate, without recourse to commercial clones — has been practised since the early years. It guarantees a genetic diversity that translates directly into the aromatic complexity of the organic Languedoc wines produced here, and into their natural resistance to disease.

Complantation, practised since 2002 on the emblematic Simon plot, is even rarer. It consists of mixing several grape varieties within the same vineyard — an ancestral practice that very few estates have preserved or reintroduced. In Lauret, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, and Carignan grow side by side, ripen together, and are harvested together. The blending takes place naturally in the vineyard rather than in the cellar — and the result in the Simon cuvée is a great red wine from the Pic Saint-Loup of a coherence and complexity that conventional blends struggle to replicate.

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