Brittany
Sabali - 2023 - Les Longues Vignes
Pauline & Édouard Cazals
Sabali means Patience in Malian... a patience oh so rewarded by the results in the glass! Complex nose, both creamy and fresh, with notes of pear, acacia and minerality. Palate: fine, elegant bubbles, sapid finish, a festive cuvée. Extra-brut.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Vin de France
- Bottled by
- EMB F 49260
- Colour
- Sparkling wine & Champagne
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chardonnay from young vines planted in 2019, in second vintage in production, grown organically and planted in Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets on sandy-clay-silty soils, on a hillside facing South, looking over the Rance Valley in Brittany. Manual harvest. Vinification: direct pressing, fermentation in barrels, aging half in barrels that have seen two to three wines and half in stainless-steel vats. Bottled for 9 months of maturation on laths, disgorged in November 2024. Not fined nor filtered, just a micro-dose of sulfur.
Pauline and Édouard Cazals
Pauline and Édouard Cazals are behind Brittany's first professional vineyard, Les Longues Vignes. Édouard, a native of Normandy, got his first taste of agriculture at the age of 15, during vegetables harvest. He then trained for a diploma in viticulture and oenology, and studied after Mitjavile at the iconic Domaine Tertre Rotebœuf in Bordeaux. Pauline also took her first steps in wine during...
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