Savoie
Roussette de Savoie - 2022 - Domaine de Chevillard
Matthieu Goury & Guillemette Renard
A great white from Savoie, with excellent aging potential, that initially reveals notes of honey and citrus in its youth. The palate is highly complex, full-bodied, mineral, and finely oaked, concentrated, full of energy, with a long finish of fine, noble bitterness. Sublime.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Roussette de Savoie AOP
- Bottled by
- Domaine de Chevillard
- Colour
- White wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 12 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2032
- rock’n’roll
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100% Altesse from organically farmed vines, exposed to the south/southeast and planted on limestone scree from the Massif des Bauges, set against the hillside. Permanent grass cover, severe manual de-budding, and hand harvesting in 15 kg crates, with yields of 35 hl/ha. Direct pressing of whole clusters, then placed in barrels for 2 years of aging, without stirring of the lees. Malolactic fermentation is complete. Unfined and unfiltered, just 2gr/hl of added SO2 during racking, two months before bottling. One year of maturation in bottles.
Matthieu Goury and Guillemette Renard
Matthieu Goury and Guillemette Renard are the couple behind Domaine de Chevillard, rooted in Saint-Pierre-d’Albigny, Savoie, since 2016. Both are locals through and through — Matthieu grew up right in the hamlet of Chevillard, which now lends its name to the domaine. Coming from a family of farmers, he always knew he wanted to work the land. With no vineyards to inherit, he kicked off his...
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