Loire Valley
A wine of great class, devoid of varietal notes, with a complex nose of stone fruit, spices, citrus fruit, and mineral notes. The palate is full-bodied and taut, with great freshness – this is already drinking very well, but if you can resist opening it, leave it in the cellar a few years.
MCMLV = 1955 = the year these Sauvignon vines were planted! The vines are farmed biodynamically on a southeast facing slope of very well drained marl soils, which yield very concentrated grapes of an ochre yellow colour – like globes of gold! The grapes are harvested by hand, with yields of 40 hl/ha. Vinification: direct pressing for half the grapes and pressing for 5 days for the rest, followed by 18 months of maturation in barrels with a quarter of them new oak. Unfiltered, bottled at the estate after a light fining, with sparing use of sulphites.
Antoine Gouffier, child of the 1985 vintage, is just a "local kid", as he likes to say. At the age of 21, he packed a bag and left for the United States, traveling from New York to California discovering all aspects of wine, from production to sales. His journey did not end there - he learned about winemaking in Argentina with Thierry Haberer, and continued his oenological explorations of the...
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Minimal sulphites
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Minimal sulphites
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