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
- 2024 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.
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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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