Racines Blanc 2018 - Les Cailloux Du Paradis

Racines Blanc - Les Cailloux Du Paradis

The Racines Balnc is a white wine obtained from a blend of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Menu Pineau and Romorantin. The 4 grapes are harvested and vinified together in used barriques. Afterwards it refines in wood for 30 months. "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts", said Aristotle and this wine is the proof. In the glass the characteristics of the individual vines are integrated and multiply their complexity exponentially. Crystalline purity, white pulp fruit, rock, tension, depth. An energetic wine and minerals. In the mouth it is warm, complex, rich, with a marked freshness and minerality. Long persistence.

Service

We taste it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in the tulip glass. A wine to be drunk immediately but will express its best in a few years.

Pairings

Racines Blanc is excellent with seafood, with fish dishes, to try with a seafood lasagna.

Winery: Les Cailloux Du Paradis

Les Cailloux du Paradis is a small winery located in Soings-en-Sologne in the Loire. The owner is Claude Courtois who is considered one of the forerunners of "natural wines" in France. He began producing natural wine in Provence until a fire destroyed most of his vineyards in 1991. After this tragic event, together with his wife, he set out to find a new place, until he found his happiness in Soings-en-Sologne in the form of a couple of hectares of land with ten-year vines. Gascon, Syrah, Menu- vines Pineau, Sauvignon, Gamay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and some of them completely unknown. Claude also cultivates wheat, which is then fed to the cows that produce the fertilizer that will be used in the vineyard, fruit trees and an inevitable vegetable garden for self-consumption, in short, "Les Cailloux Du Paradis" is a timeless place. Today the sons of Claude have taken over part of the vineyards; Étienne Courtois has 5 hectares while Julien Courtois also has 5 hectares just a few hundred meters from the family farm.