2020 Les Cépages Locaux, Viognier. IGP Mediterranee

With its incomparable golden hue, this grape gives delightful, exuberant suave wines that are singularly fragrant and floral with notes of yellow fruit. Delicate and smooth this 2020 vintage is the finest expression of Viognier.

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Viticulture

The grapes for this wine are picked in the early hours of the morning to ensure that they remain cool. They are machine picked and destemmed immediately thanks to an on-board destemmer.

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Vinification

On arrival in the cellar the grapes pass directly into a pneumatic press to release their first juices. Only the core of the press wine is retained from 0.6 bars (the last pressed juice is set aside). the juice is cold settled in concrete tanks to retain only a trace of lees then seeded with dry selected yeasts. Fermentation is thermo-regulated at between 16-18ºC to bring out the varietal characters of the Viognier. The wine is not aged as the principal is to capture the varietal aromas of this grape as quickly as possible.

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Recommendation

A sublime wine for a light apertif with home-made tzatziki or an asparagus and goat's cheese terrine.