a.o.p. Touraine le Silex

It has an eye-catching ruby-red robe shot through with tile-red highlights. A bouquet of fruity, slightly smoky notes from the local flint soils greets you before offering up a delightfully supple first taste with bold, round tannins, rounding off to a warm finish. A lovely-looking wine with spicy aromas. A wine for laying down no more than a few years, best served with red meat, European rabbit, duck breast and cheese.

• Vintage: 2018
• ABV: 13%
• Soil: Flinty clay
• Grape varieties: Cabernet franc 60%, Cabernet sauvignon 40%
• Best served at 14°C.
• Laying down potential: between 3 and 5 years

Mechanical harvesting using a de-stemmer.
Placed in stainless steel vats for alcoholic fermentation at 25°C for six days
Pressing and blending of the first press juice with the free-run juice.
Malolactic fermentation at 20°.
Wine is cold-stabilised to encourage tartrate crystals to precipitate out.
Cross-flow filtration followed by storage in tanks.
Ageing in concrete and stainless steel tanks.