Domaine de la CASA BLANCA
(Banyuls)Levano Herve and Laurent Escapa
16, avenue de la Gare
66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer
Phone: 04 68 88 12 85
Fax: 04 68 88 04 08
Email: herve.levano
@ wanadoo.fr Website: www.vinsdusiecle.com / casablanca
Founded in 1870 in Banyuls -sur-Mer, the domain of the Casa Blanca is one of the oldest Raw Banyuls and Collioure , located on the Vermilion Coast, Pyrenees-Orientales. 8 ha of old plantations and vineyards terraces, and Herve Laurent Escapa Levano give birth to wines generous, fully expressing the terroir shale: the Collioure (wine) and Banyuls (sweet wine natural). Since 2001, abandonment of synthetic herbicides and pesticides for treatment of the vine. Chemical fertilizers have been replaced with compost since 1989. The soil is worked by animal traction (plowing the mule) on the third operation. The rest is chemically weeded. Trials are underway to weed totally eliminate the weed killer. All this explains the remarkable Collioure 2007, from plantations to fifteen years Grenache Syrah black, aged in barrels Used for 12 months with weekly topping, very representative of Success Stories the region in this vintage both fleshy and distinguished, is a pretty color pronounced purple, with notes of fruit cooked ( blackcurrant and raspberry ) and liquorice, perfect with a stew. of dress garnet, 2006, with nuances of undergrowth and blackberry, is of good carpentry, to dense tannins, good custody. Superb Banyuls 2006, Rimage fruity type of ruby dress curled, with the scents of brandy distilled from raspberries , Kirsch attack on the palate, with nuances of small fruit macerated in a peppery, with tannins round. The 2007 is garnet robe, with jammy overtones, good acidity on the palate with a hint of cocoa, licorice, with a long finish.
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