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Loire Valley
L'Icaunais - 2022 - Etienne Courtois
Les Cailloux du Paradis
A nose with intense notes of red fruits... Palate: pure Courtois! This is a smooth, gulpable, fruity wine, with no small amount of finesse.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
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100% Icaunais, the local name for the grape more widely known as Gascon. The parcel is surrounded by fruit trees, creating a beautiful ecosystem where wild grasses are allowed to grow freely. Does that get your imagination working? The vines are cultivated on a flinty clay terroir, with the least intervention possible; vine treatments are made from nettle, horsetail, flowers of sulphur and minute doses of Bordeaux mixture. Low yields, 30 months of aging in old barrels. Neither fined nor filtered, and without added sulfites.
Claude & Etienne Courtois
Claude Courtois is one of the pioneers of natural wine, having rediscovered more than 20 years ago in his native Sologne the path leading back to the “original” nature, which is why the French word Paradis appears in his estate’s name, "les cailloux du paradis", meaning “the stones of paradise”. The estate is made up of vines, fruit trees, hedges and a farmyard... It’s Etienne, the first of...
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