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Grain Ermitage "Président Troillet" - 2023 - Domaine Marie Thérèse Chappaz
Marie-Thérèse Chappaz
An ultra complex nose, with notes of spices, butter, pear, hint of vanilla... The palate is full, powerful, rich, with beautiful bitterness coating the mouth, and a highly aromatic retro-olfaction: noble wood, lily of the valley, peat, iodine...!
- Size
 - 75 cl
 
- Original features
 - Low-sulfite
 
- Designation
 - Valais AOP
 
- Degree of alcohol
 - 13.9 %
 
- To drink from
 - 2026 to 2045
 
- rock’n’roll
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100% Marsanne from century-old vines farmed biodynamically, planted on terraces in Fully (lieu-dit: Les Claives) at 600 meters, on predominantly gneiss soils. Hand-harvested in small crates over several passes, with low yields. Vinification: whole cluster pressing, static settling without additives, indigenous yeasts, 14 months of aging in oak barrels for this sunny vintage. Selection of the best barrels before blending, with just a microdose of sulfur.
All of the wines by Marie-Thérèse Chappaz sold on our website are imported into France by SARL Pur Jus.
        Marie Thérèse Chappaz
Marie-Thérèse Chappaz – a pure, sincere, natural soul. Today a torchbearer for biodynamic viticulture, she has been vinifying on her 10-hectare estate in the canton of Valais, in Fully, since 1987. It’s a family estate, formerly run by her great-uncle, Maurice Troillet, who was a former President of the Valais Conseil d'état. A few of the estate’s cuvées even carry his name. Today, Chappaz is...
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