Wines
Southwest
Elian da Ros Côtes du Marmandais Coucou Blanc
Elian da Ros Côtes du Marmandais Le Vin Est Une Fête Rouge
Elian da Ros Côtes du Marmandais Le Vignoble d'Élian Rouge
Elian da Ros Côtes du Marmandais Outre Rouge
Elian da Ros Côtes du Marmandais Chante Coucou Rouge
Elian da Ros Côtes du Marmandais Abouriou
Summary
Domaine Elain da Ros is locked in the sleepy Village of Cocumont, in Southwest France’s Marmandais AOC. Elian’s grandparents, originally from Italy’s Dolomites, arrived in France in 1922. During the early years, his grandmother ran a two-hectare vineyard on which she planted grapevines to produce sweet whites. In the late 70s, Elian’s father planted 7.5 hectares of red grapes, which marked the naissance of the current estate, which Elian took over in 1998. Today the vineyards are 20 hectares in total.
“I wanted to be a farmer but my parents didn’t approve, so I thought about becoming an agricultural engineer. And they agreed to that,” explains Elian. After studying viticulture and oenology, from 1992 to 1997 he worked at the famous Alsacian Domaine Zind Humbrecht, where father and son duo Léonard and Olivier, showed him the methods of biodynamic farming and low intervention winemaking.
Elian moved back to his hometown in 1998 and converted his family vineyards to biodynamic practices. With no added chemicals, and he has a “natural” approach to winemaking: he relies on natural yeast fermentation and adds a very small amount (if any) of sulphur during bottling. All wines are fermented in concrete tanks, and are further aged in older French barrels.
Located south-east of Bordeaux, the vineyard is planted with Bordeaux’s main grape varieties (Cabernet, Merlot, Sauvignon, Sémillon), and also includes some Gamay, FerServadou, Syrah and Abouriou—the latter an indigenous grape that some call “the Beaujolais” of the Southwest!
