South West
Ivres d'Amour - 2020 - Maya Sallée et Nicolas Fernandez
Domaine La Calmette
Concentrated and hyper-expressive nose with notes of Morello cherry, hazelnut, pure indulgence. Perfectly balanced sweetness (55 grams of residual sugar), it is the perfect companion for chocolate, velvety tannins on the finish. A little bomb.
- Size
- 50 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de Liqueur
- Degree of alcohol
- 17,5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2040
- rock’n’roll
100% Merlot from 32-year-old organic vines, raisined grapes, manual harvest in small crates. Vinification: total destemming then manual vatting, slow and gentle maceration, mutage with the estate's eau-de-vie (made with the artisanal distiller from the neighboring village), during the last part of fermentation. Two years of aging in barrels that have seen several wines and demijohns. Not fined or filtered, no added sufites. 50 cl bottle.
Maya Sallée et Nicolas Fernandez
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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