Murielle GIUDICELLI

The Winery Giudicelli, located in Patrimonio, offers Corsican wines that express themselves with finesse and naturalness.

Murielle Giudicelli has been involved in the world of wine since childhood, thanks to her parents, who are real enthusiasts. Her grandfather also owned a few vineyards that were the pride of the family.

She first took a BTS in agriculture before continuing on to a DESS in Communication. After studying Sociology, she decided in 1997 to embark on the winegrowing adventure. At the beginning, Murielle was helped by (the famous) Antoine Arena to set up in the Poggio-d'Oletta area where she took over a 5 hectare vineyard in the Patrimonio appellation. After a difficult start, alone and without experience, Murielle Giudicelli decided to meet many people, particularly in Alsace where she met André Ostertag, Jean Boxler and the Barthelmé brothers. These encounters will undeniably influence her vision on white wines.

Self-taught, she was joined by her husband Stéphane in 2005. He is fully involved in the work in the vineyard. This will considerably develop Winery and the wines produced.

The Winery now has 11 ha. It has been worked and certified in Biodynamics by DEMETER since 2012.
The work in the vineyard as well as in the cellar is based on the lunar calendar.
On the different soils of the vineyard (red and grey clay, clay-limestone, granite and schist) many varieties are cultivated: grenache, vermentinu, niellucciu, sciaccarellu and muscat à petits grains.

Numerous sortings are carried out at harvest time (by hand, of course); these are done in several passages in order to obtain optimal ripeness for the grapes.
In the cellar, Murielle does not intervene much, everything lies in the quality of her grapes. No crushing or punching of the cap for the reds, the berries infuse slowly. The whites are gently pressed in whole bunches. The wines are matured for varying lengths of time depending on the vintage, and are mostly aged in tuns (some stainless steel vats are used for certain vintages). The wines are neither filtered nor fined, and sulphur is used in homeopathic doses at bottling. All this work of respect for the grapes and the wine naturally gives results that match the work done: clean, fine and lively wines. The reds are Italian in style, racy, supple and fruity. The whites are chiselled, precise and clean, in a rather Alsatian style, shall we say. We invite you to discover the work of this Winemaker. It's good, it's beautiful! "Va bé, Murielle!"