Chateau Maris

There's sustainable winemaking and then there's Chateau Maris. Purchased by ex-pat Robert (Bertie ) Eden in 1997, the 50 ha domaine in Minervois' La Liviniere is 100% organic and biodynamic. However it doesn't stop there. Bertie is an advocate of the importance of reducing the impact on the environment in the wine industry and his efforts range from using only natural pesticides and fertilisers, to building a gravity-fed winery from hemp bricks to absorb excess CO2 and naturally regulate the temperature.

Delicious aromas of ripe red fruit. The mouthfeel is supple and generous.

Pizza, Pasta, everyday dining

The grapes are macerated in concrete vats for 3 weeks and extraction is done by punching down and pumping over. No sulphites are added from the harvest until bottling.