Chenin
white wine
2018
This dry-wine oak-aged for 18 months offers a beautiful fulness with notes of passion fruits, honey, acacias flowers prolonged by some agrums flavours.
In the vineyard :
Soil : limestone-clay soil.
Localisation : on the plateau surrounding the Château de
Marçay.
Grape variety : 100% chenin.
Age of vines : 29 years old.
In the cellar :
Winemaking method : Prolonged and gentle pressing before clarification of the grappe juice. This juice is directly put into oak barrels for the fermentation.
Wine maturation : 18 months in oak barrels. Bottled and stored in tuffeau cellars for 1 year.
Suggestion :
Color : Bright yellow gold.
Noze : Passion fruits, honey, Mirabelle plum flavours.
Mouth : Beautiful fullness with notes of passion fruits, brioche, acacias flowers followed prolonged by some agrums flavours at the end for keeping a well-balanced wine.
Suggestion : With all fish dishes, sheep and goat’s cheeses, lemon tart.
Aging potential : 15 years.