

Thierry Forestier
Souvignargues
Domaine Mont de Marie
The domaine Mont de Marie is the creation of Thierry Forestier, son of a wine making family in the Costières de Nimes, who starting in 2004, has pieced together eight parcels of vineyards totaling 7.5 hectares in and around the village of Souvignargues. He has recently renovated a centuries old winery facility in the village.
Souvignargues is located in the easternmost part of the Coteaux du Languedoc and is part of the sub-region known as the Terres de Sommières. Thierry Forestier has selected vineyard plots with old vines (often head-pruned) many of which are in particularly cool micro-climates. Nearly a third of his vineyards are planted to Aramon, a much neglected, historic and local grape variety. His Aramon vines are at least 100 years old.
Thierry farms without the use of herbacides or insecticides, using only copper and sulphur to fight mildew. All of his vinifications are done with indigenous yeasts and without any intervention. The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Anathème Blanc
The Anathème Blanc is produced from a .5 hectare vineyard of 70 year old Ugni Blanc. This north facing vineyard is among the last in the Languedoc to be harvested. The picking is done manually with a selection (tri) made in the vineyard. Fermentation is carried out in stainless steel tanks without intervention and can last (as it did in 2011) for up to eight months. No sulphur is used during the process. The wine is bottled without fining or filtering and a very small dose of sulphur is used at this time. The 2011 vintage is 11.5% alcohol.
Vertigo
The cuvee Vertigo is composed of 60% Syrah from 20 year old vines grown in a cool micro-climate and 40% Carignan from a plot of 80 year old head pruned vines. The two grape types are fermented separately with whole berries being put into cement cuves where they begin their fermentation semi-carbonically. The juice is kept in contact with the skins for up to 4 weeks to extract color and flavor. The wines are drawn off the skins and assembled and then mature for 6 months in cement. Bottling is done without fining or filtering.
