Chenin Blanc 2018 - Clau de Nell

Chenin Blanc - Clau de Nell

"Clau de Nell's Chenin Blanc is a crazy wine, made in the Loire but vinified with Burgundian style. Manual harvesting in 12 kg crates and subsequent de-stemming of the grapes followed by a soft pneumatic pressing. Fermentation with indigenous yeasts and long maceration in old Burgundian barrels. 12-month elevation on the fine lees in old French fifth-passage barrels inside the cellar's ancient tuff caves. Bottling without filtration and clarification according to the lunar calendar.

Service

It is recommended to taste it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in tulip goblets. Wine to drink immediately but left a few years in the cellar can give great emotions.

Pairing

Great with fish starters, light first courses, to try with an octopus on potato cream.

Cellar: Clau de Nell

The Clau de Nell domaine is located in the Anjou appellation located in the north west of France in the southern Loire. It is here that Claude and Nell Pichard, young winemakers considered "rising stars" of French viticulture, cultivate Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Grolleau with love and skill. And if sometimes skill is not enough to guarantee the income necessary to pursue one's dreams, life often shows us how providential it can be in certain causes. When the financial situation no longer allows the two enfant prodiges to produce the wines, AnneClaude Leflaive intervenes, the owner of the famous Domaine Leflaive in Burgundy who, together with her husband Christian Jacques, bought the domaine in 2008, strictly following the principles of biodynamic. The company is entrusted to the vigneron Sylvain Potin, in the company since 2009 and with a past as a sommelier, but above all a faithful heir to the teachings of Anne-Claude Leflaive.