Grower: Clos Marfisi
Region: Corsica, France
Grape Varieties: Niellucciu
Viticulture: Organic
Category: Red
Size: 750ml
This AOC covers 400ha with half of them being owned by the two largest producers, and the other half split up amongst 30 smaller growers. If you haven’t already guessed, Clos Marfisi is part of the latter. Brother and sister, Mathieu and Julie are fifth generation at the helm of this estate, having taken over from their father, Touissant, when Julie returned in 2001, and her brother in 2012, from having careers elsewhere in France.
20 year old vines trained Gobelet. West-facing slopes looking out over the ocean, soils are silt and clay on limestone. Destemmed, no food treading, 15 days maceration, light daily pumpovers, pressed and aged in tank for two years before bottling.
