Languedoc Wine, red, rosé and white wines: Orfée Cellars .

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Les Celliers d'Orfée
53, Avenue des Corbières
11200 ORNAISONS
Phone : 00 33 4 68 27 09 76
Fax : 00 33 4 68 27 58 15

Our wines
Cuvée Boutenac Marragon Corbières Red 2006 Caberloc Vin de Pays d'Oc Red 2003	Croix du sud Corbières Red 2006 Château Ayraud Corbières Red 2004 Cuvée Sextant Corbières Red 2004	Graffan Red 2005 Graffan White 2007 Graffan Rosé 2007

Products

The selection

We have managed our products upstream for several years, that is to say right from the parcel.
We set up a parcel selection every year; for real market segmentation, we must have a segmentation equivalent to the production.

Thus, the cellar has set up a " Terroir " commission, composed of administrative managers, whose objective is to define our production policy.

In order to apply this policy - a set of specifications - we have recruited a technician. Her task consists in recording each parcel in a given selection, generally after one or several visits a year on our members' parcels.

Our enologist, before being in charge of vinification techniques, was a technician so as to know the terroir. He takes care of vinification and monitoring, helped by Jérome HOURDEL, from ICV (Institut Coopératif du Vin - Wine Co-operative Institute) and by M. CROS concerning the blending of our different wines. M. CROS has taken care of blending for many years and, thanks to this team work, our wines rank among the best, with two awards at the Grand Cru Wine Competition in France in 1985 and 1995, many gold medals and other prestigious awards.

Marketing

The most part of our production volumes are sold in bulk (more than 90%). These wines are essentially entry-level products, appellation or table wines. Medium range wines with a good added value can be sold in bulk.
We also develop top-of-the-range wines, bottled for our special customers. These wines are not listed in our product line.

We then wish to stimulate our bottle line, essentially intended for our private customers, as well as for restaurants and cellars, most of them located in Paris and its surroundings.

Since 1985, when we created the agricultural co-operative " TERROIRS d'OCCITANIE ", our cellar has been present on the export market, mainly in Europe but also in Japan and the United-States, where we have several customers. This structure does not exist any longer today, so we intend to develop our activity from the Estate.

Our bottle line is available under the brand name ORFEE Cellar.

We essentially propose AOC wines, one AOC white wine, one AOC Rosé wine and red wines.
The price ex cellar ranges from 3.95 € to 11.50 €.

Our line benefits from our renowned " Sextant Cuvée ". It was created in 1993 and has been our Prestige Cuvée for ten years. It is regularly awarded in national and international competitions and praised in guides and technical journals.