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Le vignoble de l'AOP Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois s'étend sur la commune du même nom, située au nord ouest de l'Hérault sur le causse calcaire du pied de la Montagne Noire. Le vin produit est un vin doux naturel né de muscat à petit grain. Il subit une opération de mutage (ajout d'alcool vinique), stoppant la fermentation lors de la vinification. Cela permet de conserver une partie des sucres naturels des raisins.

La robe est d'or pâle avec des reflets verts, les arômes évoquent souvent les fruits exotiques, les agrumes et fruits à chair blanche. En bouche les vins sont puissants avec un équilibre entre douceur et fraîcheur liée a une acidité naturelle typique. Les "muscat de Noël" mis en bouteille avant Noël jouent sur cette fraîcheur et sur la finesse aromatique.

Situé entre 250 et 280 mètres d'altitude, ce petit vignoble, exposé plein sud en pied de Montagne Noire, bénéficie d'un climat frais compensé par la chaleur dégagée par des sols de cailloutis calcaire d'un blanc immaculé. Un paysage empreint de minéralité, typique, avec ses murets et abris séculaires en pierre sèche : les "capitelles".

Minerve, toute proche, est labellisée "plus beau village de France". Nichée tel un nid d'aigle, ceinturée par les canyons de la Cesse et du Brian, la cité que l'on découvre toujours brusquement au hasard d'un lacet de route est un incontournable. Refuge "cathare" elle fut assiégée au Moyen Âge par Simon de Monfort afin d'y déloger cruellement les "parfaits". Mais ceci est une autre histoire...

Un véritable pari que d'implanter du muscat en semi altitude, loin de la mer ! Pourtant, le site s'y prête et grâce à la fraîcheur du climat et à la chaleur dégagée par les sols de cailloutis calcaire, le produit est original, alliant richesse et grande fraîcheur, d'où sa reconnaissance en AOC dès 1948.

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