Loire Valley
Ça Tabasse - 2021 - Olivier Le Beau
Le Beau Domaine
Olivier's favorite cuvée, the most luscious and most structured too, with notes of violets, long pepper and raspberry. Palate: lovely grain of tannin, very balanced and long, the perfect cuvée to warm up on a rainy day!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.2 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
100% Cabernet Franc from old vines planted in 1984 on a micro-parcel featuring schist soils at the entrance to the plot, and sandstone soils at the end. Organic viticulture and manual harvest, with a superb quality of the harvest in 2021. Vinification: 50% destemmed, 50% whole bunches, 20 days of maceration in vats, gentle pressing, 10 months of aging in vats. Bottled in July 2022, without fining or filtration, just a micro-dose of sulphur at bottling (1gr/hl).
Olivier Le Beau
Olivier Le Beau, a child from the 1977 vintage, founded Le Beau Domaine (i.e. The Beautiful Estate) in 2017 in Saint-Jean-des-Mauvrets, south of Angers. Having grown up in the region, he worked for the Mosse family for a season in 2000, when they started making wine. It was then at Domaine de Rochambeau that he discovered a real interest in the vine and its natural cycle, a major revelation...
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