Lot presentation

Collioure La Rectorie (Domaine de) Montagne Thierry et Jean Emmanuel Parcé 2011

The wine

This Collioure features a nose including cherry, plum, leather and violet notes. On the palate, light tannins stand out, leading up to a soft, creamy finish featuring caramel notes. This is a thoroughly enjoyable wine that can be enjoyed for up to three years following the vintage year. This blend of Grenache, Carignan, Mourvèdre, Counoise and Syrah was raised in casks as well as barrels for a year and a half.

About the Producer La Rectorie

Situated in Banyuls in the Roussillon, at less than a kilometer from the sea, La Rectorie (7 hectares) was passed down to the Parcé bothers. Having returned to the family property in the 1980s, Thierry and Marc extended their Banyuls production to that of very high quality dry white wines. Work in the vineyard wears the peasant traces of their great-grandmother, Thérèse's roots (animal draught cultivation, manual harvests, use of local grape varieties, etc.). Nowadays, it is managed by Marc and Thierry Parcé, for whom the age of the vines, the use of the ‘original' grape varieties and the controlled yields (20 to 25hl/hectare) are the key to successful vinifications. The domain bottles around 80,000 bottles every year. Most of the production is centered the vinification of Collioures rouges, but La Rectorie also produces white wines as well some Banyuls (15% of production). The wines are not fined.