South West
Astrolabe - 2023 - Pauline et Pierre-Olivier Laurent
Cantalauze
"A very lively natural sparkling wine with a fruity, complex finish, rocketing bubbles but great finesse to celebrate an occasion", say the two winemakers. The bubbles are fine and elegant, with hints of kumquat, candied lemon and honey.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin Mousseux
- Degree of alcohol
- 12 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
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100% Mauzac from organic vines planted on a South-facing limestone plateau, harvested by hand using small crates. Vinification: direct pressing, fermentation starts in stainless steel tanks, then the juice is bottled two weeks later with residual sugars in order to create effervescence in the bottle. The wine is then aged on lees, on laths, with bottle stirring. Disgorged by hand, neither fined nor filtered, micro-dose of sulfur.
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Pauline et Pierre-Olivier Laurent
Pauline and Pierre-Olivier Laurent run Cantalauze, a nine-hectare winegrowing estate in Cahuzac-sur-Vère in the Tarn region, in the heart of the South-West. Founded by Brigitte and Guy Laurent,Pierre-Olivier's parents, the estate was quite rare in the 80s, with organic viticulture right from the start in 1982, and Vin de France cuvées, a rejection of oenological techniques that were common at...
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