South West
A rare wine – and our favourite during the tasting… The nose is powerful and complex with notes of flowers, white fruits and spices. The palate is lean and long, with a very subtle finish of nuts and curry.
A blend of several white grape varieties grown on a 0.6 ha parcel – Noual, Sauvignon, Chenin, Sylvaner… The vines, 20 years old, and farmed organically on clay-limestone soils at the top of a south-facing slope. The grapes are harvested by hand with crates, long pressing (8 hours) in a pneumatic press, and fermentation in an Alsatian foudre, during which a veil of flor forms over the surface of the wine. Bottled without fining or filtration, and just a microdose of sulphur (1 gr/hl).
Maya Sallée ans Nicolas Fernandez from La Calmette Estate embodies Cahors' resurgence. After graduating from their agronomist studies in Toulouse, they've travelled all around the world and pilled up about 15 years worth of winegrowing knowledge by themselves, as they went to Uruguay, the Mouton-Rotschild Vineyard and the Opus One Estate, passing by Mexico and New Zealand as well as the...
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Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Sulphites-free wine
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