France
Résurgences - 2022 - La Calmette
Maya Sallée & Nicolas Fernandez
A rare bottle and a true favourite at the tasting. Powerful, complex nose with notes of flowers, apricot, toasted almond and spice. The palate is rich—more so than in 2021—yet vibrant and long, with a delicate finish hinting at walnut and curry.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2034
- rock’n’roll
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Field blend of several white grape varieties planted together on a 0.8-hectare plot: Sauvignon, Chenin, Noual (a forgotten local grape), Sylvaner… 24-year-old vines farmed organically, rooted in clay-limestone soils on a south-facing slope, high on the hillside. Direct press or short three-day maceration, followed by very long pressings—up to 8 hours. Fermented in an old Alsatian foudre and old barrels, then aged for two years on the lees in foudres, lightly under flor. Bottled without fining or filtration, just a micro-dose of sulphur (1.5 g/hl).

Maya Sallée et Nicolas Fernandez
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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