Loire Valley
Jour de Soif - 2023 - Pierre et Rodolphe Gauthier
Domaine du Bel Air
It’s fruity and fresh, this is a Cabernet Franc just as we love it, a bottle to uncork with some friends at an aperitif, carried by notes of crunchy and juicy red fruits.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Appellation
- Bourgueil
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
100% Cabernet Franc from 20-year-old vines, grown organically and planted in the Bourgueil appellation, 60% on grit soils and 40% on clays. Manual harvest. Vinification: total destemming, sorting of the berries on the sorting table, pre-fermentation, about 8 days of maceration with pumping over, pressing, aging in vats on fine lees until Spring 2024. Bottled at the Estate without fining or filtration, sensible use of sulfites.
Pierre et Rodolphe Gauthier
Pierre Gauthier, from the Domaine du Bel Air, is a monument of Loire viticulture, one of the heroes of Bourgueil appelation. His great-grandfather, a pottery worker in the small village of Benais, decided in 1880 that he wanted to create something else with this beautiful soil, and began to cultivate it. Phylloxera passes by, the parcels that are suitable for vines are very affordable at this...
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