Víno - Chateau De Fontlade "Aurelia prima" AOC blanc 2011

Detailní popis produktu

Grapes

Vermentino

Tasting

Eye: Pale yellow.

Nose: delicate and subtle; lime flowers, white flowers;ripe white peaches.

Mouth: fresh long finale; very ripe peaches; a finale on quince and soft spices.

The pale yellow wine will turn golden with the years. Ready to drink, this dry and refined wine will age with elegance and subtleness for up to 5 years.

Winemaking

The grapes are picked slightly overripe when the ouside temperature does not exceed 50°F.

The grapes are pressed and the wine is made following an old burgundy tradition, directly in recycled French oak barrels, on its own lees. Daily stirrings are slowly replaced by weekly strirrings until the wine has achieved its malolactic fermnetation. It is then fined and filtered before being bottled.

The aim of wine making using recycled french oak barrels is not to add wood to the flavour but to give it subtleness and elegance, through a natural oxygenation process.

This wine replaces our Ermitage White Cuvée and retains the same characteristics.

A real discovery this elegant and subtle dry white wine comes from a single plot in the heart of our Pérégrinage estate, which is surrounded by a certified Mediterranean forest.

This part of our estate is at  300 m above sea level; this means that, in spite of the heat, our summer nights remain cool and this is a sure promise of a nice acidity.

This is a wine we only make when we are proud of its vintage.