2017 VDF - Monbazar
2017 VDF - Monbazar
Soft, mineral, fruity and sweet wine with honey notes.
Cuvée: Monbazar
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Semillon30, Muscadelle 20 ,Chenin 50
ABV: 10,5%
Vintage: 2017
Hand-harvested in mid-October. Long pressing (five hours). Fermentation with indigenous yeasts - this generally lasts for 12 months because of the sugar concentration, with phases of intense activity. Once the balance between alcohol and residual sugar is reached, fermentation with filtering. Bottling is carried out immediately after filtration to limit sulphur as much as possible. Aged in stainless steel.
Sulphur:
Soil: clay and limestone
Yield: 20 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.