Savoie
Bright and youthful, with notes of pear, honey, flowers, nuts, and a very pleasant hint of “cold mimosa.” Palate: refined and fluid, with lovely minerality and a superb saline structure, and a honeyed, fresh finish. A light white wine to awaken your taste buds!
100% Altesse grapes from organically farmed vines planted on a single plot between 350 and 450 meters above sea level, facing South, on clay-limestone soils (roundness), with molassic sandstone (freshness) and very stony glacial moraines (complexity). The grapes were harvested by hand on September 28, 2024, direct pressing, 24 hours of settling, fermentation in enamelled steel vats, aged on lees for 7 months. Bottled at the estate on April 23, 2025 using gravity, with just 1 g/hl of SO2 added during the winter.
Ylan Mathieu and Cyril Andrez — vintages 1988 and 1992 — are at the helm of La Cordée Blanche in Savoie: a young domaine of 7 hectares farmed organically (including 2 too steep to mechanize), spread between Frangy and Veyrier-du-Lac, taken over from Bruno Lupin’s Domaine Lupin. Ylan trained as an engineer and worked in Sweden, while constantly traveling back to deepen his wine knowledge —...
See all of their wines
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Organic or biodynamic wine
Minimal sulphites
Please sign in first.
Sign inWe use cookies to analyze our website traffic and improve your user experience.
By clicking on “Accept“, you consent to the use of cookies on our website for audience statistics, functions related to social networks and optimization of the advertising content.
Français
English
