South West
Vignes Noires - 2020 - Maya Sallée et Nicolas Fernandez
Domaine La Calmette
A few words from Maya and Nicolas: "A crystalline, lithe, complex wine. Aromas of black fruits and cherry complimented by slight toasted notes. A delicate palate with lovely length." We're big fans of this wine!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Cahors
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
100% Malbec, from 22-year-old vines grown organically, planted on a 0.8-ha plot with clay-limestone soils, on a steep east-facing slope. The grapes are harvested by hand with crates, then transferred to vats by gravity, followed by gentle maceration with indigenous yeasts, and two years of maturation in an old Alsatian cask. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, and just a microdose of sulphur (1 gr/hl).
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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