We absolutely love this well-balanced wine—a demi-sec wine with 20 grams of residual sugar per liter, boasting notes of yellow peach, pear, mango, beeswax, and lemon tart... Try it with a cheese platter or Asian cuisine!
Ingredients and nutrition facts
This cuvée comes from a 1.4-hectare plot planted in 1971 with Petit Manseng and Gros Manseng grapes, on silty-clay and gravel soils with a 10–20% slope and a southwest and west exposure in the Caubeigt locality. The grapes are hand-harvested in early October, with yields of around 20 hl/ha. Natural winemaking: very slow pressing of whole clusters, light settling, fermentation and aging in wooden containers—barriques, fûts, and demi-muids—and in stoneware eggs for 10 months; followed by blending and 2 months in stainless steel tanks.
Franck Lihour is the winemaker at the helm of Domaine Castéra, a highly promising estate that is already well established in the region. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Pierrette and Christian, Franck returned to the estate in 2014. After earning his diploma in viticulture and oenology, he honed his craft far from Béarn, working in Corsica, Burgundy, and Champagne, as well as South...
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Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
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