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The GILBERT & GAILLARD International Magazine : Make some room in your lounge for WINE REGIONS from around the world
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LANGUEDOC<br />
– FUTURE –<br />
From left to right, Samuel, Gael, Roman and Basile Guibert, the sons of Véronique and the late Aimé Guibert<br />
PROMOTING AND SAFEGUARDING<br />
BIODIVERSITY<br />
At Mas de Daumas Gassac in Aniane, Hérault, Roman<br />
Guibert would subsequently state that 70% of the<br />
Cabernet-Sauvignon vines had gone unscathed. “On<br />
the night of April 7, temperatures plummeted to<br />
-8°C across Languedoc. We were prepared. The cold<br />
snap affected the whole of France. We spent the night<br />
lighting fires, but vines cannot withstand temperatures<br />
of -8°C”, says Samuel Guibert at Mas de Daumas<br />
Gassac regretfully. Like his brother, Samuel praises<br />
work by his parents who were early adopters of massal<br />
selection in the 1970s. They used the technique to plant<br />
the estate’s vineyards in 60 small blocks surrounded by<br />
glades and woodland to preserve biodiversity, rather<br />
than clear the land to make way for an unbroken<br />
expanse of vines.<br />
“Actually, we have always been practitioners of agroforestry.<br />
Cabernet-Sauvignon is a late-ripening variety<br />
and it suffered less from frost than the white vineyards,<br />
particularly the Sauvignon blanc. The micro-terroir in<br />
26 AUTUMN 2021 GILBERT & GAILLARD - THE FRENCH EXPERTS ON WINE
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