Domaine de Longue Toque
Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Plan de Dieu – Organic 2024

2024 stands out for its freshness and balance, a real breath of fresh air in an unpredictable climate. The rainy spring restored the water table.  Rainfall in May and June affected flowering and reduced yields. The end of summer, with its warm days and cool nights, promoted color and aromatic balance. Controlled yields resulted in concentrated, highly aromatic grapes. This vintage offers wines with moderate alcohol levels, very intense colors, and smooth tannins.

The vines lie between the villages of Travaillan and Camaret sur Aigues, on the vast alluvial terrace created by the Ouvèze, an once powerful sub-Alpine river. This terrace is an accumulation of large round stones and limestone gravels, with a sprinkling of flint. Sand and clay form the matrix of these larger elements. This layer can reach up to 25 or 30 meters deep along the ancient riverbed. Subsequently, important climatic upheavals altered the surface of this terrace, breaking down the limestone, developing ferous oxides and the apparition of more recent claybeds, which provide the Plan de Dieu with its characteristic red-brown hue.

Hand-picked on August 29, 2024. The two grape varieties are vatted together. Cold pre-fermentation maceration (54°F) for 3 days. Daily pumping over to promote tannin extraction. Maceration for 20 days, then pressing with the press juice returned to the free-run wine. Aged for 10 months, including 8 months in barrels and demi-muids (600 liters). Bottled at the estate on July 3, 2025. 10,533 bottles produced. Alcohol content: 14%. Organic wine.

Open 2 to 3 hours before serving  between 13° and 15°C.