Hommage à Louis Derré 2015 - Bellivière - Coteaux-du-Loir AOP

A rarity!

The 'Tribute to Louis Derré' wine is a wine created in 2000 from the old vines from 80 to 0 years. This wine combines the usual work of extraction to concentration and the complexity related to the age of the vines.

NAME:
-Red Hills of Loir.

Varieties:
-Pineau of Aunis 0%. 80 to 0 years old vines.

Local:
-Clay and siliceous clay with Flint on tuffeaux. The presence of strong clays is preferred for the soils to red.

VITICULTURE:
-Work of the soil: plowing, release and erasures. No weeding.
-Maximum yield 25 hl/ha. Manual harvest.

WINEMAKING:
-A month in tank open for alcoholic fermentation with punching, systematic Assembly of the wine and wine press, natural malolactic in recent barrels.
-Breeding of a year in barrels of 3 to 5 wines.
-The balance is the work of nature.

TASTING:
-2002: Sweet scents of ripe red fruits with hints of humus and Havana then, ventilation, fragrances of rose petals, violet, Peony. The attack is frank, tonic and fruity. Wine is pure, straight, slender scale. It gains strength by the presence of tight and fine tannins which structure the end of mouth. We suspect in this great wine, amazing race and personality. Time tame little by little this Stallion. Vintage, dec 2004

SERVICE:
-Service: to decant one hour before serving at 18 ° C.
-Agreement dishes: partridges and pheasants in a pan. Refined two-year agreement with an ossau iraty (cheese of sheep mountain)