Domaine de la Taille aux Loups Montlouis-sur-Loire "Remus" dry white 2024

PRESENTATION OF TAILLE AUX LOUPS
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Domaine de la Taille aux Loups Montlouis-sur-Loire "Remus" dry white 2024

Technical Sheet written by the domaine

Grape variety: 100% Chenin.

Age of the vines: 50 to 80 years.

Soil: cuvées generic, clay-limestone and clay-siliceous soil, on limestone bedrock. A set of plots, sloping south between Cher and Loire. 

Vine management: plowed vines, short pruning 6 to 8 buds, 4 canes maximum per vine. Non-certified organic farming.

Harvest: manual. Wine made from grapes picked during the second pass in the vineyards. Transport of the harvest in flat crates. A partial picking 8 to 10 days prior allowed for the production of the cuvée "les dix arpents".

Yield: 20 hectoliters per hectare for this cuvée.

Vinification: pneumatic pressing. Static settling for 30 hours. The wine is transferred by gravity to the cellar. Very slow fermentation in barrels without inoculation or chaptalization.

Aging: no malolactic fermentation. Aging for one year in barrels 1/4 new, 1/4 one wine, 1/4 two wines, 1/4 three wines. A single racking, bottling in the following autumn, very light filtration. 

Service: serving temperature of 10 to 12 degrees. Decanting recommended.