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Chatzen White 2017
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Profil Aromatique
Fruits exotiques
Accords Mets & Vins
Profil Technique
Sol :
Sand
Vinification :
Vinification combines whole bunches and direct pressing. The Sauvignon benefits from a 4-month "soak" in Chasan juice from direct pressing. The aging lasts from 1 to 8 months depending on the batch. Aging, without topping up, lasts more than 3 years in old barrels, giving the wine a controlled oxidative patina and a graininess. This method reveals a patient and artisanal approach.
Carafage :
No
Température de service :
10-12°C
Potentiel de garde :
5-10 years old
Decoding Wine
Sufficient
Woody
Complex
Floral
Expenses
Fruity
Gobble
Light
Sweet (wine)
Mineral
Oxidative
✔︎
Beading
Powerful
Round
Salinity
Dry
Tannic
Strained
La Sorga - Antony Tortul
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Chatzen Blanc 2017
La Sorga
Anthony Tortul loves old vineyards: he devotes his life to finding and vinifying them. Just as there are landless shepherds, he can be defined as a landless winegrower, in other words, a wine merchant whose scope extends throughout Languedoc and, eastward, as far as Châteauneuf-du-Pape, in search of the best terroirs. Born in Foix, with six years of experience as a wine technician and oenologist in various vineyards in the south of France, he created La Sorga in 2008. His enthusiasm leads him on a path filled with favorites, and each of these favorites is a vineyard. The result is a dizzying mosaic of natural, lively, and spirited wines, which reinvents itself each year with around thirty cuvées per vintage. Few winemakers can list such a variety of grape varieties on their list: the whole of southern France is covered with muscats, grenaches, picpoul, mauzac, carignan, cinsault, marsanne, alicante, braucol, duras, viognier, len-de-l’el, and all the rest.
This wine is a blend of seventy percent sauvignon blanc (twenty-eight-year-old vines) and thirty percent chasan (a cross between listan and chardonnay; forty-three-year-old vines) from sandy limestone soils near Carcassonne. The chasan is processed by direct pressing and the sauvignon macerates in the must in whole bunches for four months. The aging is three years in old barrels, without topping up. This explains the controlled oxidative character of this wine, with a nose of veil (walnut husk) and stewed tropical fruits, dried banana, curry... and the aromatic, straight, long and complex palate, well tannic. The aging potential is enormous but the wine already stands out for gastronomy and the most refined dishes on the most joyful tables.
Natural wine without added sulfites.
