Château Puech-Haut

Château Puech-Haut in Languedoc is a vineyard that produces powerful and bold wines with character. For a few decades, the area of ​​165 hectares is held by Gérard Bru, a man who built his own from scratch. The production is spread over 10 red wines, 2 white wines and 3 rosés and is representative of the delimitation of grape varieties and plots. The grape varieties used originally are Grenache and Syrah, but since then, Gérard Bru has planted on the neighboring parcels of white grape varieties of the Rhône: Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier. This enlargement makes that today, the field extends on 184 ha, all belonging to AOP Languedoc. The cellars of Château Puech-Haut are designed between tradition and modernity. Modernity in the techniques of temperature regulation allowing a balanced vinification in wood vats. It is also present in the production of rosé wines for the preservation of juices and long fermentations (about twenty days) at low temperature (10 ° C). The tradition is present for the realization of the white wines where the classic techniques of fine wines are applied: pneumatic press, barrel aging with stirring. Generally, aging is 18 months in barrels and 1 year in vats, for red wines. The Château does not use yeast, some wines are not even sulphited, others are, but at very low dose. These are the red wines that make the identity of Château Puech-Haut. First of all the exceptional cuvées, the parcels selections such as the Fortieth, Le Clos du Pic, Le recantou, Cante Lebre, Bosq Negro, Quercus. At 12bouteilles.com, we love the Belier head range, available in red, white, and rosé. The red wines are aged in barrels for about 12 months, the white wines also for 8 months and the rosés in stainless steel vats. Finally the Château produces 2 other ranges, the Prestige range and the Pic Saint Loup range.