Loire Valley
A nose that couldn’t be more complex, with notes of peach, quince, yellow apple, honey, lime, butter, and tropical fruit... The palate is creamy and luscious, with huge volume, perfectly balanced sweetness, and unbelievable length.
100% Chenin from 10- to 40-year-old vines farmed biodynamically on flinty clay soils over tufa stone. The wine is a blend of selected barrels from 24 parcels spread over 5 hectares in the communes of Lhomme and Ruillé-sur-Loir. Harvesting is done by hand with crates. Vinification: after pneumatic pressing and natural cold settling, the wine ferments with indigenous yeasts, then matures on its fine lees for 15 months in barrels that have seen several wines. Bottled in November 2021 with 17 grams of residual sugar/litre, and a light dose of sulphites.
Éric and Christine Nicolas, one the great ambassadors of the wines of the Loire today, and not just for the quality of their luscious cuvées of such masterfully balanced sweetness. The couple founded their estate from scratch in 1995, first renovating an old farmhouse and then cobbling together piece by piece some twenty hectares of vines across five communes. After embracing organic...
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Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Minimal sulphites
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