South West
Résurgences - 2021 - Maya Sallée et Nicolas Fernandez
Domaine La Calmette
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.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2034
- rock’n’roll
Blend of several white grape varieties planted on a 0.8-hectare plot: Noual, Sauvignon, Chenin, Sylvaner... 23-year-old vines grown organically on clay-limestone soils at the top of the hillside on the South-facing slope. Hand-harvested, direct pressing or short three-day maceration in pneumatic presses on 2021, with long 8-hour pressings. Fermented in an old Alsatian foudre and in barrels, during which a light veil of flor forms over the surface of the wine. Bottled without fining or filtration, micro-dose of sulfur (1 gr/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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