Collection: Domaine Saint Sylvestre

Sophie and Vincent Guizard are cultivating 8 hectares of vine at the North of Aniane village, over 320 m of altitude in Terrasse Du Larzac Appellation. Those 3 plots vineyard are surrounding a small church (XII century roman style church) in the middle of the woods.Sophie and Vincent Guizard are cultivating 8 hectares of vine at the North of Aniane village, over 320 m of altitude in Terrasse Du Larzac Appellation. Those 3 plots vineyard are surrounding a small church (XII century roman style church) in the middle of the woods.

The Terroir

In 2000 Vincent start to clean the land of tree. The soil is very close to a Chateauneuf-Du-Pape with it’s big rolled stones. The exposition is South-Est, perfect for the Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre.

In the vineyard

They care about the environment which is why they cultivating the vines by respecting it.

The Vinification

Reds are vinified traditionally with indigenaous yeast. Every plots and grape varieties are vinified separately. After 30 to 40 days in tank the wine is aged 24 months in old barrels from burgundy. Whites are blend after pressuring and vinified in one wine barrel with indigenous yeasts. And then aged for 12 month. The blend is done 3 month before bottling (depending of the moon).

Sophie and Vincent Guizard

Both of them learned how to cultivate vines with their grandfathers since childhood. Vincent learned to vinified wine in 1998 and 1999. He work in several vineyards until the end of 2010. Sophie is graduated from wine business school. She lived one year in London as a Loire wines sales person before joining Vincent. On December 1st 2010 they started the Domaine Saint Sylvestre adventure