Nose
On the nose this wine initially offers up maturation notes of vanilla, toast, bread crust before quickly opening into intense scents of passion fruit and fresh mango, then becomes smoother with hints of confectionery, pear barley sugar, and a delicately spicy touch of white pepper.
Palate
It is full and soft with lots of delicious flavour on the palate, a beautiful range of aromas, a saline touch and lovely acidic tension balanced out perfectly by the warm finish.
Growing Conditions
Clay-limestone and fine gravel over a clay-limestone subsoil
Ploy by plot management with integrated drainage system
Eco-responsible viticulture certified HVE 3 : High environmental value
Harvest
100 % manual, with sorting in the vineyard and transportation in small cases to avoid any risk of oxydation
Bottling
At the property
Winemaking
Light pressing for the grapes in inert conditions ( horizontal pneumatic press )
Cold must settling : 8 degrees in small, thermo regulated stainless steel vats
Alocoholic fermentation at 16.5 degrees in barrels : 50 % new and 50% used once previously.
Aging
100 % of the production in French oak barrels with mild toast : 50% new and 50% used once previoulsy.
Over fine lees, with stirring, during 8 months.
Appearance
Crystalline, beautifully deep golden yellow color.