Description
Domaine de la Noblaie Les Blancs Manteaux Chinon 2019《WC Selection - F969》
Region : Chinon, Loire Valley, France
Grapes : 100% Carbernet Franc
Alcohol : 13.5%
Website : https://lanoblaie.fr/en
🏅 Vinous 92分：Domaine de la Noblaie is now a fixture in the premier league of Chinon producers.
🏅 Vinous：Pretty and happy and easy to like for someone who's a new convert to Loire Cabernet Franc.
🏅 Vinous：You know you’re on to a good thing when a winery’s entry-level wine becomes one of your own house pours.
🏅 Wine Advocate begin to rate this wine at 2014, never rate under 92 points! (until 2018, no score yet for 2019)
🌟 Owner Jérôme Billard worked for Petrus(internship) and Dominus
🌟 65 years old vine, 100% planted in the signature soil tuffeau + hand harvest
🌟 Organic certified, partially biodynamic, natural yeast, low sulfur
Owner Jérôme Billard
Consisting of beautiful plateaus and clay/chalk hillsides, our vineyard shelters 20 hectares of cabernet franc and 6 of chenin, the only varieties permitted in Chinon AOC. Our vines are surrounded by woods which protect them from frost and storms, and are studded with plots of cereals, peas and sunflowers, all cultivated organically.
Everything begins in the vineyard, specifically around each vine
Our objective: to return life to the soil, to encourage the proper balance of the vines while controlling their vigour and yield. All we do in the vineyard is carefully thought out to meet the needs of the plants on each of our terroirs.
Harvesting by hand
As harvest approaches, we keep careful watch on the aromatic development of the grapes on each plot. We select and harvest them by hand at the correct maturity needed for each of our wines. On the same plot, we may harvest several times to separate bunches from individual veins of soil and with differing maturity.
A gravity-flow cellar, source of finesse
The closeness of our cellar to all our vines reduces unwanted crushing of the grapes during transport. Thanks to its position at the foot of the hillside, using the natural slope, our cellar ensures that both damage to the grapes and oxidation is minimal during transfer to the vats.
An ancestral vat, carved in the rock
Dug in the tuffeau centuries ago, this vat has been used exclusively for the vinification of our cuvée Pierre de Tuf since 2003. We have rediscovered such historic practices as punching down by hand and emptying the vat with buckets, alongside natural temperature control thanks to the thick walls of tuffeau.
Oenology and ageing
We see the work in the cellar as accompanying the grapes during their metamorphosis. We believe that healthy grapes create the freedom to avoid unnecessary additives. Fermentation is from indigenous yeasts.
Ageing from 6 to 24 months is carried out in the cool temperatures of our natural cellars, without any need for topping-up. Ageing must not impose on a wine but uncover its different facets. Whether it is in vats, in barrels or in amphoras, it contributes to revealing the characteristics of our terroirs. Use of sulphur is minimal. These tiny additions preserve our wines from oxidation but also allow them to retain their identity.
$160/bottle
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