Jean Baptiste SENAT
winemaker : Jean-Baptiste Senat
Region: Languedoc
City: Trausse Minervois
Grape varieties : grenache, cinsault, syrah, mourvèdre, carignan and merlot
Surface Winery: 15 ha
Annual production:
Certification: organic wine (AB)
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| At Jean-Baptiste Senat, Winery located in Trausse(Minervois) and certified in organic agriculture by Ecocert, the land is healthy and the wines are sincere and close to nature. A living earth and healthy grapes always give natural wines that have 'the mouth of the place and the guts of winemaker' ! Parisian, student in History and Political Sciences, it was not until the great Parisian strikes of 1995 that Jean-Baptiste Senat decided, against the family's advice, to leave to take over the cellar and the hundred-year-old vines which had been abandoned by the family. Jean-Baptiste settled there with his wife Charlotte. With his sleeves rolled up to conquer a new life and a new profession, it took a lot of determination and courage to learn: the solitude, the cool nights, the aches, the doubts but also the solidarity of the first friends who came to give him a hand for the first harvest of 1996. Time passes with his learning and the main thread of the adventure remains above all: respect for the earth, nature and the grapes; that is to say the terroir. The work in the vineyards scrupulously follows, and moreover, the path of organic farming methods. Gentle pruning, old-fashioned weeding with a plough. | The land learns by itself to give its best, to defend itself, to look for what it needs. In this 15 hectare Winery , there is no terroir, no parcel, no Grape variety more important than another. Each one gives the best it can offer. The winemaker is there to guide, to follow, he does not really impose much. The manual harvest is carried out in small crates on beautiful grapes with the maturity Jean-Baptiste is looking for. Fermentation with indigenous yeasts is most often in whole bunches to keep the aromas, the freshness and the finesse of the tannins. The natural evolution of the maturation is done without any other artifice than the accompaniment of winemaker. The blending that builds the cuvées of Winery (5 in number) remains the magic moment of the year. |
