Michel Delhommeau Muscadet Cuvee St Vincent

Michel Delhommeau Muscadet Cuvee St Vincent

Melon de Bourgogne

Vintage: 2016
Description: Wine maker notes A very focused bottling of Muscadet from gabbro andgneiss soils in the village of Monnieres. Fermented and Aged for 6 months sur lie in tank. Very complex, with petrol and crushed rock aromas. Producer Michel and Nathalie Delhommeau, a young couple making some of the most crystalline Muscadets you can find, own 27 hectares of vines planted on this gabbro. Some of their holdings are old vines planted before World War Ii. The property, which is in conversion to organic certification, is one of the few in the region to vinify by parcel and use indigenous yeast. The wines here are simply made but not simple. There is no wood aging. There is very little lees stirring. There are no fancy techniques. The grapes are harvested, they are gently crushed, they ferment naturally, and then they take a long winter's nap until March. It is, above all, the gabbro that is the loudest voice in this conversation. Recently Michel and Nathalie have started buying small amounts of vines on other soils types like the hard granite of Monnieres Saint Fiacre and Clisson which they will separate out into new cuvees. These, along with the higher-end current wines, will spend a longer time in tank to help develop the structure before bottling.
Price: $ 7.97
Price in original currency: None

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