South West
Delicate, elegant and yet concentrated wine. The framework is built on freshness, but the blend of the two grape varieties and the accomplished maturity bring flesh, richness and a silky and dense mouthfeel.
A blend of 85% Malbec and 15% Merlot, from a single 0.6-ha parcel of 32-year-old vines, farmed organically and planted on clay-limestone soils over marls and Kimmeridgian bedrock, facing west at 340 metres altitude. Harvesting is done by hand with small crates. Vinification is natural: the grapes are destemmed then moved into vats by gravity, and macerated for 15 days. The wine is matured for two in barrels that have seen several wines wines, on the lees. Neither fined nor filtered, and just a microdose of sulphur at bottling.
Maya Sallée ans Nicolas Fernandez from La Calmette Estate embodies Cahors' resurgence. After graduating from their agronomist studies in Toulouse, they've travelled all around the world and pilled up about 15 years worth of winegrowing knowledge by themselves, as they went to Uruguay, the Mouton-Rotschild Vineyard and the Opus One Estate, passing by Mexico and New Zealand as well as the...
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Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Minimal sulphites
Sulphites-free wine
Minimal sulphites
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