South West
Terre Lune - 2022 - Pauline et Pierre-Olivier Laurent
Cantalauze
Complex, rich nose with notes of quince, pear, raisin, honey... Palate: beautiful tension for a superb balance, with a fresh and long finish. Poetry in a bottle: "Terre Lune, Terre Lune, Ce soir j'ai mis mes ailes d'or, Dans le ciel comme un météore." Boris Vian
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Gaillac
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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A blended cuvée of Mauzac Vert and Mauzac Roux, from organic vines grown organically, planted on clay-limestone soils. Harvested by hand with small crates. Vinification: direct pressing, the juices are then moved by gravity, into a cask and barrels that have seen several wines, fermentation and 9 months of aging in these same barrels. Bottled on the estate, without fining or filtration, just a micro-dose of sulphur.
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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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