Loire Valley
Eloïse - 2022 - Antoine Delaunay
Delaunay Vignerons
A rather unique blend with notes of raspberry, black fruit, a hint of vegetal… Palate: a digestible and crisp juice with ripe tannins. Eloïse is Antoine Delaunay's niece, a wine that could be forgotten a time in your cellar... As you’d expect – this is a cuvée for our children!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
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Blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Abouriou, from vines grown organically, in their first years of conversion to organic farming. Indeed, the plots were purchased recently. 14-year-old vines, with a North-West exposure. Manual harvesting and natural vinification: total destemming, gentle punching down and two light daily pump-overs during the 10 days of maceration. Soft pressing, one year of aging in barrels that have seen several wines, blending of the barrels then three months in vats. Not fined, not filtered, low dose of sulphur.
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Antoine Delaunay
Antoine Delaunay, son and grandson of Muscadet winegrowers, is a 36-year-old winemaker, now at the head of the Delaunay Vignerons estate. A true local boy, Antoine graduated in the area, then became the vineyard manager of Daniel Bideau’s estate in La Haie-Fouassière. The classical logic of returning to the family estate takes on its full meaning in 2015, when the winemaker goes back to his...
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