Chateau Soucherie Coteaux du Layon 1er Cru 'Chaume' 2015

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Chateau Soucherie Coteaux du Layon 1er Cru 'Chaume' 2015The exceptional Chaume vineyard produces the grandest wine of Soucherie. The vineyards border the Layon river and are often swathed in an early morning fog. The soil is clay and schist. The special micro climate that exists in Chaume creates a tendency for botrytis to develop and the grapes from this vineyard in Chaume are almost always blessed with 100% botrytis. Harvest is done by multiple passes through the vineyard that can frequently cover

Quarterly: 3-4 bottles

Levet’s basic Côte-Rôtie spends two years in 600-liter barrels

Cabernet Franc forms the backbone of this wine (90%) but is blended with a touch of Grolleau (10%)

This is a relatively cool terroir compared to Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Produced only in special vintages and aged an extraordinarily long time on its lees

Nicoletta considers this to be classical Dolcetto

This flagship cuvée is 70% Merlot

Tannins are firm but not mean

Pierre Latine’s Yvorne Grand Cru Blanc is raised in a combination of two-thirds stainless steel and one-third cement egg and bottled after a year on the fine lees

autumnal perfume—dried currant

17-hectare sliver of this outsized grand cru

a mineral spine

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