2019 VDF - Coup d'Vime
2019 VDF - Coup d'Vime
A blend of Chardonnay previously picked for Gaia, and Semillon partly macerated with the skins. Tense, aromatic and opulent, we’ll miss Gaia, but this is a formidable replacement.
Cuvée: Gaia
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Chardonnay, Semillon
ABV: 13%
Vintage: 2020
Winemaking: 50% direct press Chardonnay aged in foudre, 30% Semillon that has a week of semi carbonic maceration before ageing in barrel, and 20% Semillon from the same harvest as Splash, left to ferment to dry and aged in tank. Blended a month before bottling with no additions in November 2020.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Clay and limestone
Yield: 39 hl/ ha
A 40-hectare estate, fully organic since 2013. The 8th generation to work at the estate; Vincent Alexis joined his father in 2010 and talked him into bottling their own wines instead of selling them for bulk blending. 25ha are white. Vincent has recently planted lots more traditional grape varieties, Sulphur is only used on bottling for the Bergecrac Blanc and the Monbazillac. Soils are clay on limestone with iron and flint in the Pecharmant vineyards.