Loire Valley
La Guerrière - 2022 - Sophie et Clément Maire Kurdziel
Vignobles Les Justices
La Guerrière is The Woman Warrior in french, perfect to restore strength among the troops! Fruity and mineral, it will be the forefront of your aperitif, "balanced between the tension of the Chenins on limestone and the roundness of the matured white wines", in Sophie and Clément own words!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Val de Loire IGP
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
70% Chenin and 5% Cabernet Franc from organically farmed vines on the small “La Guerrière” plot in Saint-Germain-sur-Vienne. Hand-harvested and blended with 20% Chardonnay and 5% Grolleau Gris. Vinification: direct press of all four grape varieties, followed by alcoholic fermentation in new barrels. The wine is then aged 3/4 in vats and 1/4 in barrels. Bottled at the estate without fining, filtration, or added sulfites.
Sophie et Clément Maire-Kurdziel
Sophie and Clément Maire-Kurdziel, just in their early forties, are respectively from Moselle and Aveyron in France, and met at the university in Montpellier. Both became oenologists, they worked for large Estates in France and abroad, before returning to the Loire Valley. Being actually close to the field and the vineyards, they quickly realized the limits of chemistry, and became more...
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