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Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière La Petite Crapule 2025

Name: Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière La Petite Crapule 2025
Brand: Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière
SKU: CIGALES-CRAPULE
Price: 28.00 USD
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Style: Dry, very light-bodied rosé; primeur in approach — vinified quickly after harvest and released young to preserve fruit and freshness; low alcohol (~10%), crunchy, and built for immediate drinking; closer in character to a light skin-contact rosé than a traditional pale Provençal style
Grapes & terroir: 100% Grenache Noir; organically and biodynamically farmed on clay and limestone soils in the stony, arid foothills of the Larzac plateau near Montpeyroux, approximately 30km from the Mediterranean; the altitude and proximity to the Massif Central temper the Mediterranean heat and bring freshness that is atypical for the region
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts; vinified quickly in the primeur style at the end of autumn; no fining, no filtration, no added sulfur; bottled and released within the same harvest year
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 46–50°F; no decanting; best consumed within a year of the vintage while the primary fruit is vivid and fresh
Pairing: Socca (Niçois chickpea flatbread)
Similar to: Tavel rosé at lighter weight, Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo, skin-contact Pinot Gris rosé from Alsace

Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière La Petite Crapule 2025 is a dry rosé made from 100% Grenache Noir grown organically and biodynamically on the clay and limestone foothills of the Larzac plateau in Montpeyroux, Hérault, in the Languedoc. Produced by life partners Ivo Ferreira and Julie Brosselin, La Petite Crapule is made as a primeur: vinified quickly at the end of harvest, it is released in the same season as the vintage. Fermentation is spontaneous with indigenous yeasts, and the wine is bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfur. Approximately 10% ABV. Vin de France.

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Producer profile

Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière

Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière — "the cicadas in the anthill," a reference to a French folk poem and song by La Rue Kétanou — is the joint project of Ivo Ferreira and Julie Brosselin, life partners and winemakers based in Montpeyroux in the Hérault. They established the label together in 2016, merging their separate vine holdings into a shared 10-hectare estate farmed organically and biodynamically throughout.

Ivo Ferreira was born in Portugal and came to winemaking through a career in wine service, spending formative years learning to make wine with Jean-Marc Brignot in the Jura and with the Amoreau family at Château le Puy in Bordeaux before founding his own Domaine de l'Escarpolette in 2009 in the Languedoc. Julie Brosselin was previously co-owner of Le Petit Domaine in Montpeyroux, gaining experience alongside partners who shared the same commitment to natural farming and minimal-intervention cellar work before joining forces with Ivo.

Together, they work from a shared cellar in Montpeyroux, using a range of vessels — fiberglass tanks, 225-litre and 600-litre barrels, and large foudres — depending on the cuvée. Their shared philosophy is one of low yields, hand harvesting, spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, no additions or manipulation during vinification, and bottling without sulfur or with only a minimal addition when the wine's condition requires it. Fining and filtration are not used. Their wines are notably lighter and fresher in style than the Languedoc norm, often at low alcohol levels, and frequently involve creative techniques including co-fermentation of red and white grapes and whole-bunch maceration.

The labels across the range reflect this spirit of play and creativity: Ivo's use Japanese calligraphy by artist Marie-Christine Enshaïan, while Julie's are designed by her sister.

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Wine region

Languedoc–Rousillon, France

Montpeyroux is a small village in the Hérault department of the Languedoc, situated at the base of the Larzac plateau where the southern foothills of the Massif Central meet the Mediterranean plain. It sits approximately 30 kilometres from the coast, at an elevation and in a microclimate that moderates the intense Mediterranean heat in ways that lower-lying coastal vineyards do not benefit from. The surrounding landscape is rocky and arid, with garrigue scrub, ancient olive trees, and vineyards planted on stony soils of clay and limestone — the final geological expression of the ancient volcanos and sedimentary formations of the Massif Central.

The combination of altitude, cool northerly winds from the Larzac, and large diurnal temperature variation allows growers in and around Montpeyroux to produce wines with a freshness and precision that stands apart from the broader Languedoc reputation for warmth and concentration. Annual rainfall comes primarily from large summer thunderstorms and significant winter precipitation over the plateau, which replenishes groundwater and feeds the numerous springs that help vines through the region's dry summers. Low yields are a consistent feature of the terroir.

The Languedoc as a whole is France's largest wine-producing region by volume, stretching from the Spanish border at Roussillon in the southwest to the Rhône delta and the fringes of Provence in the east. Despite its scale, the zone contains pockets of very specific terroir — particularly along the Larzac plateau edge, in the Pic Saint-Loup zone, and in parts of the Hérault — where natural winemakers have established some of France's most compelling low-intervention production. The Montpeyroux community of winemakers, including Ivo Ferreira, Julie Brosselin, and associates like Aurélien Petit, has become a reference point within this movement for wines that are lighter, fresher, and more transparent than the Languedoc's traditional image would suggest.

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