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Loire Valley
Nord Ouest - 2014 - Antoine Delaunay
Delaunay Vignerons
Big big crush. Complex and powerful nose, difficult to find the Muscadet during a blind tasting. Notes of ripe fruits, honey, candied lemon, pear, mineral backbone. Volume and length are both impressive.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Appellation
- Muscadet-Sèvre-et-Maine
- Degree of alcohol
- 12 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
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A REPRENDRE 100% Melon de Bourgogne from 90-year-old vines grown organically, planted on the plot of La Bareille in Vertou, which present very shallow soils and a North-West exposure. A cuvée classified as Cru Château-Thébaud, characterized by its granodiorite terroir. Harvest is done by hand, at maturity. Vinification: direct pressing, fermentation in vats and very long aging in vats, on the lees, for 54 months.
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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