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Name by name, selection of the best owners of France for the typicity of the wines, their quality-price-pleasure ratio, the expression of their soil and their passion of vine growers.
A attractive presentation of their property, quality of the years, their prices... and especially the possibility of coming directly into contact with them.
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HALL OF FAME
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 Family winegrowing since 4 generations. The estate assumes the very full management of 4 ha of Sauvignon, 4 ha of Pinot noir and 2 ha Pinot gris. The culture is made in a traditional way: ridging, débuttage, incorporation of natural manure.
The Winegrowing proposes to you of Reuilly Sauvignon blanc 2007, of dress pale, brilliant and limpid, very pleasant, which associates freshness with elegance, of a nice aromatic complexity where one finds nuances of lemon and flowers white like this rosé Pinot gris 2007, with a complex nose where the blackberry joins raspberry, a mouth intense and refined at the same time, to open on spiced mets. Reuilly Pinot noir is of beautiful color to the purple reflections, with aromas of violet and blackberry. |
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 From father to son since three generations.
The Domaine du Clos du Fief extends on 6 ha from Juliénas AOC, 1 ha of Saint Amour AOC and 5 ha of Beaujolais-Villages AOC located on the commune of Jullié, the whole coming from type of vine Gamay black to white juice. The estate comprises 1/2 ha of white Beaujolais-Villages resulting from the Chardonnay on the commune of Saint-Verand in the Saone and the Loire with in parallel the development of Crémant de Bourgogne. Juliénas 2007: wine on the fruit but with great qualities in mouth. Juliénas 2006: subtle perfume with a good length in mouth. Juliénas 2005: wine of guard with a very good harmony acidity/tannins. Put aside the vintage 2005 when nature made the things well, vintages 2006 and 2007 are wines where the knowledge to make of the vine grower is paramount. |
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 To the North-East of Carcassonne, in the central zone of Minervois, soil “Balcons of Aude”, this moyenâgeuse strengthened farm is a winegrowing of only one holding of 158 ha with 58 ha of vines including 45 planted in Minervois. For better including/understanding the specificity of each vintage of Château Fabas, it is necessary to know of it the origins, type of vines and the type of maturing. The Winegrowing is pressed on a decoration of hillocks exposed to full midday, witness of the old relief to the very strong slopes where no culture is possible, only the pines of Alep and the Mediterranean vegetation is clutched on the red grounds of the hills. The vines are spread out over two levels over a reversed relief, the high terraces with the oldest grounds and the low terraces with the youngest grounds. The grounds are argilo-limestones, in the tops, the flint levels on the terraces, and the sandstone on the slopes.
Excite your papillae with this Minervois cuvée Seigneur 2005 which has been born from the complexity of type of vines established, for more than 30 years, on an exposure full southern and controlled to 25 hl/ha with yield. Syrah 60%, prevailing in this vintage, gives in this soil of the very scented grapes. Grenache 40% has a very major rooting which ensures good regularity and maturity to him. A wine of beautiful color, with the cherry notes and undergrowth, with rich and silky tannins at the same time, a wine extremely well matured, powerful, of full mouth. ? Minervois Seigneur white 2007 (60% of Vermentino, 30% Maccabéo and Roussane, 10% Bourboulenc) is a wine where roundness and distinction, expenses join, aromatic, of a nice long final with this subtle quite characteristic point of citrus fruits and flowers, an elegant and persistent wine, to discover on an escalope of turkey to the cream as on roasted crawfish. For their Minervois Serbolles red, the type of vines are: Grenache noir 50%, Syrah 40%, Carignan 10%. For this vintage, the vines are enherbées a row on two, and the feet weeded under the row. The age of the vines is between 35 and 55 years. The assembly consists of 35% of Carignan, 35% of Grenache and 30% of Grenache noir. Long completely picked off grape wine making, type of vine by type of vine, at controlled temperature, supporting the diffusion of tannins and the extraction of all the intracellular elements contained in the skin of bays. Vinified after one day a cold maceration, before alcoholic fermentation does not begin. ? the 2005, of robe ruby, is a typified wine, with this point characteristic of spices, undergrowth and strawberry, and this at the same time rich and supple structure, of excellent guard. |
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TOP WINES IN AREAS
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VITICULTURAL AREAS GUIDE
For any knowledge on the grounds of the vineyards, the type of vines, the agreement of the wines and the dish, the characteristics of names and the wines, click on an area : |
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CLASSIFICATIONS OF BEST FRENCH WINES
Single in their kind and actualised every year, the Classifications of chairman are the reflection of a total hierarchy in such or such name, of the questioning of "famous" the Classification of the wines of the Medoc which goes back to 1855... with the other classifications of the best wines of France. |
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VINTAGE CODE
The veritable Vintage chart
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What is the difference between this and the multitude of other charts with their complex mixture of stars and grades ? Two things : the first is the rigor, the severity with which Patrick Dussert-Gerber has graded the intrinsic quality of the vintages. The second thing, the enormous “plus” in the Vintage Code, is the second grade (upper right, in Italics and in red on our plastic coated card).
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DUSSERT-GERBER GROUP
A specialized principal French journalist, Patrick Dussert-Gerber defend and promote the French wines which deserve it and posts a will to undertake and an impressive capacity of work. Its Guide, Millesimes and the shops of the Love of the Wine, in Paris and Bordeaux, are references. In 26 years, it set up a true family "group". When the character joins passion. |
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