Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny "Terres Chaudes" red 2021

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Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny "Terres Chaudes" red 2021

Guide RVF des Meilleurs Vins de France 2024 (August 2023): 92/100. "Terres Chaudes beautifully embraces this vintage as it reveals a fleshy envelope, a more comfortable sensation, leading to a well-defined finish framed by dynamic tannins."

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Y. Castaing, June 2024): 90/100. Sourced from vines aged between 25 and 35 years, located in the Les Poyeux lieu-dit within the commune of Chacé, the 2021 Saumur Champigny Terres Chaudes exhales a perfumed, delicate bouquet of spices, peony, violet and leaves. Medium-bodied and displaying a poised and direct character, it's refined and gentle, boasting a crystalline texture and a calcareous, prolonged finish. DRINK DATE 2024-2030.

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

LOCATION: On the slope of Poyeux and part of the Chaintres pit at the lieu-dit les Dares.

GRAPE VARIETY: Cabernet Franc, average age 35 to 45 years

TERROIR: Chalky subsoil known as tuffeau, a blend of clay-sandy soils with a limestone dominance. Natural grass cover. Yield per hectare 35 to 40 hl for this cuvée.

VINIFICATION: Manual harvesting in crates, sorting table before fermentation. Fermentation in cement tanks since 2006 at a temperature of 15 to 22 degrees, preceded by a maceration of 2 to 5 days for the indigenous yeasts to start working. Fermentation lasts 18 to 22 days, followed by a one-year aging on fine lees in 60hl wooden tanks and 12hl oval tanks. The Terres Chaudes will not be filtered or fined before bottling.

GASTRONOMIC PAIRINGS
Roasted duck with spices.
Seven-hour lamb shepherd's pie.
Lamb tagine with prunes, apricots, and fresh almonds.
Venison with celery fries, quince fondant, and turnip, delicacies with blueberry jelly, juice in the style of mulled wine.
M'hancha with vegetables.
M'hancha with minced meat.
M'hancha with chicken.
M'hancha with marine flavors.