Loire Valley
Folle Blanche - 2023 - Antoine Delaunay
Delaunay Vignerons
What can we say except that it's a white wine with an outstanding price/pleasure ratio!? Highly refreshing, with mineral and citrus notes. Mouthwatering and tense, saline finish, the perfect pairing with oysters.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 10 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
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100% Folle Blanche from vines grown organically and planted on several plots which have altered granitic soils, with a sandy-silty profile. Large majority of 50 to 70-year old vines. Manual harvest. Vinification: direct pressing, malolactic fermentation is done, aging for 8 months in different types of vats: fibre, stainless steel and concrete with glass tiles. Bottled in the cellar at the end of February 2024. Low dose of sulphur.

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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