Roussillon
L'Ambrée - 2015 - Bruno Duchêne
Domaine Bruno Duchêne
A little treasure in the bottle, a highly aromatic wine, very concentrated, powerful, gourmand and above all delicious, with notes of caramel, hazelnut, candied apricot, old rum, honey... Palate: sweet and smooth but without heaviness, exceptional length.
- Size
- 50 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Banyuls
- Degree of alcohol
- 16.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2040
- rock’n’roll
Very rare and confidential cuvée produced only in 2015, this is a Banyuls Blanc on which Bruno had done a mutage, but which he didn't like at the time because it had too much sugar... So he put it in an old barrel, and forgot about it for 8 years, without topping up the barrel, for oxidative ageing. Time has done its work! Thanks to prolonged ageing, we have a Banyuls with less sugar and alcohol, around 100 grams of residual sugar/liter. Unfined and unfiltered, with no added sulfites. 150 liters produced.
Bruno Duchêne
Bruno Duchêne, yet another kid from the northern France who headed south for the sunshine of Roussillon. Settling here in 2002 in a middle of a vineyard of vines that were clearly exceptional, but also impossible to work – at least with tractor. A vigneron in the right place at the right time, the vines he acquired were lovely terraced parcels, unsuitable for mechanised farming due to their...
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