South West
Cavale - 2022 - Pauline et Pierre-Olivier Laurent
Cantalauze
Black fruits, violets, licorice, subtle pepper notes... A beautifully balanced wine, both powerful and fresh, subtle and deep, complex and long. Pauline and Pierre-Olivier tell us: "For occasions when you can linger, taste and savor while taking your time."
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Gaillac
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
100% Braucol from vines grown organically, planted on clay-limestone soils. Harvested by hand, using small crates. Vinification: total destemming, gentle maceration without pushing the extraction, pressing, 9 months of aging in egg-shaped terracotta amphorae. The particular shape of the amphora imparts permanent movements to the wine, lees are stirred continuously by an internal vortex-like current unique to these eggs-shaped containers. Bottled on the estate, without fining or filtration, micro-dose of sulfur.
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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