LES ARGILES 2008

Les Argiles is a full-bodied wine, with a very nice fat counterbalanced by a minerality and a fine acidity. This makes it a fairly accessible wine in its youth, although it evolves superbly over a decade or so. We really appreciate its finish marked by beautiful notes of citrus!

This wine is at the price of the property

Grape variety: Chenin
Density: 6600 vines/hectare
Age of the vines: 70 years
Cultivation method: biodynamic
Soils: composed of deep clays and white chalks of a clay-limestone nature only. Subsoil made up of tufa, chalk that remains within reach of the roots.
The vines are pruned by Guyot, harvested with successive sorting, yields around 40hecto/hectare

Pneumatic pressing of the harvest, fermentation on indigenous yeasts in demi-muids (600-litre barrels). No malolactic fermentation.