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Obstination - 2020 - Les Cailloux du Paradis
Claude Courtois
Notes of dark fruits, blackberry jam, violet, cocoa, and pepper. The whole thing shines with balance and energy, the palate structured by fine, silky tannins. A supple, luminous wine with great aging potential — proof that obstinacy can be a beautiful thing.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Wine without added sulfites
- Designation
- Vin de France
- Bottled by
- Claude Courtois 41230
- Colour
- Red Wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
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Vines cultivated as naturally as possible, with a top-secret grape variety that was once planted in Sologne before 1863 — Claude Courtois prefers not to disclose it. Natural winemaking “done the same way for 47 years”: hand-harvested in several passes to achieve perfect ripeness, gentle pressing, multiple rackings to obtain a clear wine, followed by two years of ageing in barrels that have seen several wines and two additional years of bottle maturation. Unfined, unfiltered, and with no added sulphites.
Claude Courtois
Claude Courtois is one of the pioneers of natural wine, having rediscovered more than 20 years ago in his native Sologne the path leading back to the “original” nature, which is why the French word Paradis appears in his estate’s name, "les cailloux du paradis", meaning “the stones of paradise”. The estate is made up of vines, fruit trees, hedges and a farmyard... Today, even if Etienne, one...
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