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Our vineyards and terroir

Great wine is made in the vineyard. At least 50% of the work of making wine takes place before harvest.

 

We founded Domaine Treloar with 9ha (25 acres) of mature vines on 3 excellent sites around the village of Trouillas. We only grow traditional grape varieties of the region and none of the vineyards are irrigated. I believe great wines, anywhere in the world, come from dry vineyards.

 

In 2008 we bought a further 2ha of old vines that were going to be dug up. These included the oldest Syrah in Trouillas, an even older parcel of Carignan and some interesting white varieites - Grenache gris and Carignan blanc. In 2016 we found another old parcel of Grenache gris.

La Serre

A windswept hilltop with fantastic 360° views of the sea and the mountains, which sits beside the old Knights Templar watchtower of Mas Deu.

Muscat a petits grains

1.0ha which is used for One Block Muscat

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Macabeu

0.2 ha of very old, low-yielding vines

Grenache noir

0.5 ha of old vines on trellis

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Grenache Gris

0.7 ha of old bush vines

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Carignan noir and Carignan blanc

0.25 ha of old bush vines planted in the 1950s

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Syrah

1ha of vines planted in 2005 on very stony clay soils and trained on New-Zealand style trellis.

Foun Rouge

A stony terrace between Trouillas and Terrats. Foun Rouge means "red spring" in Catalan

Macabeu

0.2 ha of very old, low-yielding vines

Muscat a petits grains

1.0ha which I send to the Trouillas Cooperative

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A stony terrace between Trouillas and Terrats. Foun Rouge means "red spring" in Catalan

Le Roubau

A rare limestone hill between Trouillas and Ponteilla where the battle of Trouillas was fought during the French Revolutionary War. The vines cover the south and west slopes.

Muscat d'Alexandrie

0.70 ha on red clay / limestone

Muscat a Petits Grains

0.70 ha on red clay

Syrah

1.2 ha on typical Aspres stony clay

Lledoner Pelut (a rare local relative of Grenache noir)

0.45 ha on steep limestone slopes

Grenache noir

1.2 ha on a south-facing limestone slope

Mourvedre (also known as Mataro and Monastrell)

1.4 ha on a clay / limestone slope facing the sea

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