France
L'Icaunais - 2022 - Les Cailloux du Paradis
Etienne Courtois
A nose with intense notes of red fruits... Palate: pure Courtois! This is a smooth, gulpable, fruity wine, with no small amount of finesse.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Wine without added sulfites
- Designation
- Vin de France
- Bottled by
- Etienne Courtois 41230
- Colour
- Red Wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
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100% Icaunais, the local name for the grape more widely known as Gascon. The parcel is surrounded by fruit trees, creating a beautiful ecosystem where wild grasses are allowed to grow freely. Does that get your imagination working? The vines are cultivated on a flinty clay terroir, with the least intervention possible; vine treatments are made from nettle, horsetail, flowers of sulphur and minute doses of Bordeaux mixture. Low yields, 30 months of aging in old barrels. Neither fined nor filtered, and without added sulfites.
Etienne Courtois
Étienne Courtois follows in the footsteps of his father Claude Courtois, vinifying natural, haute-couture wines that are sought after all over the world. Although Claude continues (and always will!) to work as a vigneron on a smaller surface, it is Étienne who now stands at the head of the renowned Les Cailloux du Paradis in Sologne. A dreamlike place where Nature reigns supreme: a domain with...
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