The founding fathers of l'Etoile, 12 in total, had the objective of direct sale of the production to the individuals, to convey to us their passion for vine and wine and the values of cooperation. This company was finally born after the Great War in 1912, and the founding fathers were able to express their talent in this majestic cellar.

To proceed with the ageing of great wines, great wrath were transported by sea from the center of France. Proudly displaying the Catalan colours, these great thunderbolts, fashioned by the contemporaries of Marcellin Albert , Raymond Pointcarré and Jean Jaures, always contain our oldest vintages; The cuvées of several decades which made the reputation of l'Etoile within and far from the Roussillon borders.

It is by the competence, the dynamism and an experience of almost a century that the cellar elaborates its nectars. From the vine growers to the cellar master, all these men bring to life the know-how inherited from their ancestors, repeating the same gestures, the same work, thus freezing a craft through time.
The cycle and the main stages of vine growing that make their daily lives:

• The pruning done in winter is intended to aerate, and to condition the good fruiting.
• Planting the young vines and grafting the plants.
• The aim of the epamprage is the size of the branches for a better development of the vine. This is done in the early spring.
• Leaf stripping consists of removing leaves that mask the clusters in order to allow the light to pass and to encourage the maturation of the grape cluster.
• The maintenance of the soil and the low walls which will favour the soil and will play a considerable role on the quality of the vines and the grapes.
• Then comes the maturation, a crucial stage where the sugar content progresses while the acidity rate decreases .
• The harvest is the stage of harvesting the grapes.
• The preservation and vinification in cellar, is finally the last stage in the design of wines and the refining in cellar.

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