Clos Marie
Clos Marie

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Le Clos Marie is the absolute benchmark for red wines from Pic Saint-Loup and one of the great organic wines of the Languedoc. Founded in 1995 by Françoise Julien and Christophe Peyrus at Lauret on the vines of grandmother Marie, farmed organically from its very beginnings across twenty-two hectares of limestone and marl, it produces age-worthy wines from Pic Saint-Loup of a finesse and precision that have elevated the appellation to the rank of the great references of Languedoc-Roussillon wines. Its cuvées Simon, Les Glorieuses and the white Manon are among the most sought-after rare wines of the Languedoc. Alongside Mas Bruguière, Clos Marie embodies the excellence of Pic Saint-Loup. Among the great vintages are the wines of 2011 2015, 2020, 2021 and 2023

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Clos Marie, a great wine from Pic Saint-Loup

Clos Marie was born from Françoise Julien's grandmother, who owned a few hectares of vines on the heights of Lauret, at the heart of the AOP Pic Saint-Loup. Like many small Languedoc vineyards of the time, the grapes went to the local cooperative — a convenient practice that allowed no qualitative expression of its own.

In 1995, Françoise Julien and her partner Christophe Peyrus decided to change everything. They took over the family vineyard, settled in Lauret and immediately chose to go organic. Within a few vintages, Clos Marie established itself as one of the leading addresses of the AOP Pic Saint-Loup and one of the great organic wines of the Languedoc.

AOP Pic Saint-Loup: the terroir of the freshest red wines in the Languedoc

To understand the red wines of Pic Saint-Loup, one must understand what makes the appellation unique within the Languedoc vineyard. The eponymous peak rises to 658 metres, forty kilometres north of Montpellier. The vines benefit from cool nights throughout the season, a diurnal temperature range that preserves the natural acidity of the grapes, and winds that dry the bunches and limit disease. It is this exceptional climatic context that explains why the great wines of Pic Saint-Loup possess a tannic finesse and aromatic freshness that the lowland appellations of the Languedoc rarely replicate.

The Clos Marie vineyard extends over twenty-three hectares at Lauret on limestone and marl soils scattered with scree. The vines are tended with entirely manual soil work. The grape varieties are rooted in the Pic Saint-Loup tradition: Grenache noir, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Carignan for the reds, complemented by Cinsault and Counoise for freshness. In white, a palette of indigenous varieties — Grenache blanc, Grenache gris, Roussanne, Clairette, Rolle — that give Clos Marie its most singular age-worthy white wines from Pic Saint-Loup.

Complantation and massale selection: the organic viticulture of Clos Marie

Among the practices that most clearly distinguish Clos Marie within the AOP Pic Saint-Loup, two deserve particular mention. Massale selection — the choosing and propagation of the finest plants from the estate, without recourse to commercial clones — has been practised since the early years. It guarantees a genetic diversity that translates directly into the aromatic complexity of the organic Languedoc wines produced here, and into their natural resistance to disease.

Complantation, practised since 2002 on the emblematic Simon plot, is even rarer. It consists of mixing several grape varieties within the same vineyard — an ancestral practice that very few estates have preserved or reintroduced. At Lauret, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Carignan grow side by side, ripen together and are harvested together. The blending happens naturally in the vineyard rather than in the cellar — and the result in the Simon cuvée is a great red wine from Pic Saint-Loup of a coherence and complexity that conventional blending struggles to replicate.

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