Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny "La Marginale" red 2021

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Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny "La Marginale" red 2021

RVF Guide to the Best Wines of France 2024 (August 2023): 93/100. "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. La Marginale is even more so, charming and endowed with flavorful tannins."

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Y. Castaing, June 2024): 91+/100. The 2021 Saumur Champigny La Marginale, derived from vines planted on deep clay soils (the lieu-dit is named Fosse de Chaintres), reveals a floral, lively bouquet of peonies, violet, iris, dark wild berries and cassis. Medium-bodied, layered and seamless, with a juicy core of fruit, it’s lean and fresh with a lively, tense finish enhanced by powdery tannins. Very charming. DRINK DATE 2024-2034.

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

LOCATION: In the municipalities of Chacé and Varrains at the lieu-dit Les Poyeux.

GRAPE VARIETY: Cabernet Franc

TERRIOR AND VINEYARD WORK: Clay-limestone with a predominance of Turonian, south-facing slopes that warm up earlier than others, thus achieving beautiful ripeness. This cuvée can only come to light in great vintages, knowing that we must find great balances.
Natural cover crop.
Soil work: plowing and tilling for better aeration.
Vineyard work: organic and biodynamic, Biodyvin label and Ecocert certification

VINIFICATION:
Manual harvest with sorting on the table upon arrival at the winery.
Yield: 35 hl / ha.
Fermentation of the wine in wooden vats with very light pump-overs just to moisten the cap.
Followed by a maceration of 22 to 24 days depending on the type of wine we are looking for.
Malolactic fermentation in 25 hl round wooden vats from Stockinger.
Aging in 228-liter barrels of 2 and 3 wines as well as in 12 hl oval foudres and 25 hl round foudres. The aging duration of La Marginale can vary from 18 to 24 months depending on the characteristics of the wine.

GASTRONOMIC PAIRINGS:
Apple blood sausage compression
“Thick pork chop” “Ibaïona” in a casserole and vegetable fricassée
Marinated lamb chops with Espelette pepper and garlic-soaked bread galette
Grilled wood pigeons over embers
Pigeon seared then cooked in hay from Aydes
Farm-raised squab stuffed with truffled potatoes and pig's feet
Oxtail stew
Herb-crusted rack of lamb
Rib of beef with choron sauce
Quails in confit, grandmother's potatoes
Spiced lacquered mallard
Roasted duckling with spiced honey