Description
Our iconic Viognier, featured in Michel Bettane’s ‘World Greatest Wines’ is a heady, explosive treasure with aromas of apricot, peach and tropical flowers. Full-bodied with significant weight and texture, finely balanced by acidity that provides a remarkable backbone to the wine. The pinnacle of handcrafted perfection.
The destemmed and partly crushed berries invited for an extended skins maceration to extract the dazzling flavours. Then gently pressed and transferred into 500 litre French oak puncheons for a natural (wild yeast) fermentation to express it’s terroir and sense of place. Its fine lees has been stirred during the first six months, assisting to its remarkable silkiness, complexity and depth. The young wine enjoyed 22 month in the puncheons to mature and flourish to a nectar of great enjoyment. No cold stabilization. Unfined and only roughly filtered to retain the amazing aromas. Naturally beautiful…
