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Savennières Clos du Papillon
2020
$81.00
The DOMAINE DU CLOSEL family vineyard is located at Château des Vaults, in Savennières, a grand Cru of the Loire. We are gardeners of the landscape and its biodiversity with a vocation to respect it, to conserve it, to highlight it in authentic and living local wines. We are artisan winegrowers, artisans of taste and the French art of living. The Savennières vineyard is located on schist hillsides facing the Loire. Chenin, the region's emblematic grape variety, produces bright, elegant,...
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Clos du Papillon is a flow (a small valley) which descends towards the Loire, very well exposed and perfectly drained. The soil there is made up of schist which abounds in this region, but also of quartz and rhyolite. The 50-year-old vine must take deep roots to draw its nutrients.
Manual harvest with selection of bunches on the stump. Three passages: 3 stages of maturity. Gentle and slow pressing, native yeasts. Settling for 12 hours. Fermentation for 2 months then aging for 12 months on fine lees in Allier oak barrels.
Aromas of cooked fruit, citrus, apple, followed by pineapple and toasted almond. Very mineral. Very long in the mouth. Pairings with scallops and lobster
The 2020 Clos du Papillon is shy aromatically, offering up restrained characters of white stone fruit, almond meal and an intriguing whiff of smokiness. It is a textured Savennières, initially caressing the mouth with its silken texture before showing its true colors: this is a powerful style with drive. Its tension, austere acidity and phenolic grain reflect its poor, volcanic soils.
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