Pleasant, refreshing, with ideal ripeness and breadth in the mouth, free of any harshness. An airy, clear wine from Agiorgitiko that expresses the joy of life, without stylized exuberant barrels, acquired vanillas and excessive extractions on the nose and palate. The red fruit excels, crystal clear, expressive along with some smoke, fresh acidity and...
The altitude of 350m and the proximity to the Atlantic Ocean lead to a cool, almost cold, oceanic climate. The vines were planted in 1993 by mass clonal selection, from over 70 different biotypes of old vines from the region. The wine has been extracted for eight days with the skins on and like all Cozs wines is produced with minimal intervention,...
The exceptional southern exposure vineyard in the cru village of La Haye-Fouassiere is biodynamically farmed and has been distinguished for centuries for the top quality of the wines it produces. Le Fief du Breil is slowly fermented with indigenous yeasts and then left for thirty months on the lees in Landron's large underground concrete tanks. The result...
Manual harvesting from old dry vines of the Black and Xynisteri varieties, de-stemming without breaking the rails, followed by pre-fermentation maceration for 18-20 hours for Black and 6 hours for Xynisteri. The fermentations of the two varieties are carried out in separate tanks in order to preserve the typicality of each variety. At the end of...
Delicate, fragile, difficult to cultivate since if it becomes "stubborn" it can get stuck at 9% potential alcoholic strength and is difficult to go higher. Not many leaves you see and it sometimes has a hard time feeding the fruit. So it is delicate and elegant as a wine, has a beautiful aromatic character with pear, apple, lemon and herbal and floral...
If you dig a little deeper into the history of Barolo you will see that things are different from the picture we have today. For example, the first dry wines of the region only started to be produced around 1830-1840 AD, at the encouragement of the last Marquise of Barolo Giulia Falletti, and before this milestone the wines were sweet. Thus Chinato is one...
Similar to all the wines made by the pioneering Marcel Lapierre and nowadays his family, the grapes for Raisins Gaulois comes from organic vineyards and are whole bunch fermented with indigenous yeasts. We are talking about young vines here mostly coming from the Morgon appellation but also from the wider area of Beaujolais and by labelling itself as Vin...
Direct pressing in pneumatic presses, gentle browning of the juice and fermentation exclusively with indigenous yeasts and light sulphurization before bottling only, for the excellent grape which comes from organic farming with some biodynamic practices. The wine will be fermented in a combination of stainless steel tanks and barrels and will "rest" for...
Next to Marcel Deiss's sensational grand cru in which the message of the place goes beyond the winemaker and the year, in a take-off of the concept of terroir, a "humble" village like Alsace Zellenberg is not only humble. The village and its characteristics offer a flavor context, a signature, which the Deiss winery graciously comes to endorse, and which...
