Savoie
Schiste - 2024 - Domaine des Ardoisières
Brice Omont
Crystalline juice, floral and fruity nose with notes of mirabelle tart, green apple, roasted apricot, Elderflower… A sharp, full-bodied wine. Pure elegance, with a spherical, saline finish.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Vin des Allobroges IGP
- Bottled by
- Domaine des Ardoisières
- Colour
- White wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2033
- rock’n’roll
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Blend of 39% Jacquère, 19% Roussanne, 17% Mondeuse Blanche, 16% Altesse, and 9% Pinot Gris, from organic vines planted on the Coteau de Cevins, with mica-schist soil that is poor and shallow. Vines are cultivated on south-southeast-facing terraces. The extreme slope (as steep as 60%) does not allow for the use of any machinery. Manual harvest. Vinification: fermentation and aging in casks and barrels, with 10% new oak, for 10 months, and bottled with minimal sulfites.
Brice Omont
Brice Omont, child of the 1976 vintage, has created a cru in the mountainside. In the 1990s, they started cutting back the forest, rebuilding the ancient terraces and planting grapes anew... and so was born a very unique vineyard, the Coteau de Cevins. The early years were difficult indeed, but this was an immense human undertaking, since he was supported by the wine people of the region and...
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