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La Petite Baigneuse
France
Languedoc-Roussillon
Before becoming a winemaker, Philippe Wies led several different lives as a farmer: first as a livestock farmer, then as a vegetable farmer, and for a time he also ran a bed-and-breakfast with his family. After leaving that line of work, he spent some time traveling with his family before settling down in Maury, in the Roussillon region, where he found a setting and available vineyards that fit his vision.
He began his career in winemaking in 2007 on the schist soils of Maury, at an elevation of about 350 meters in the Agly Valley, not far from other renowned natural wine estates such as Domaine du Possible and Du Bout du Monde. The early days were challenging: he harvested his first grapes at the vineyards of winemaker friends, refurbished the equipment, and learned to tend these terraced vineyards, exposed to the tramontane wind. In 2008, just a few months before his second harvest, he built his own concrete fermentation tank to control the temperature during winemaking, and released his first vintage that same year.
The estate, now run as an organic farm by Céline Wies, has gradually expanded to cover approximately 14 hectares. Philippe Wies grows Grenache, Grenache Blanc, Carignan, Syrah, Maccabeu, and Lledoner Pelut on schist soils surrounded by garrigue. In the cellar, winemaking is carried out using indigenous yeasts with minimal intervention: little or no sulfites, no filtration, and no punching down, in order to preserve the freshness and minerality characteristic of his wines. These grape varieties produce briny, thirst-quenching whites as well as characterful reds, vinified sometimes with the stems removed, sometimes through maceration, and occasionally by foot-treading.
Among its wines is Juste Ciel, a direct-press white made from Grenache Gris and Macabeu grapes grown on 90-year-old vines, produced at a low yield. The estate currently produces about 20,000 bottles per year.
