Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny "Les memoires" red 2021

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Domaine des Roches Neuves "Les Mémoires" 2021 red wine:

Guide Bettane + Desseauve 2024  (sept. 2023) : 95/100.

Guide RVF des Meilleurs Vins de France 2024  (août 2023) : 94/100. "As for Les Mémoires, it imparts a beautiful energy, a healthy texture, and a firm finish."

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Y. Castaing, June 2024) : 93/100. The 2021 Saumur Champigny Les Mémoires, deriving from vines rooted in silex soils atop chalky subsoils, offers up aromas of plums, violets, peonies, spices and smoke intertwined with flinty notes. Medium to full-bodied, layered and crystalline, it’s deep and complete with structuring tannins and a more austere character than the Clos de l’Echelier. It should see out its 10th anniversary in fine form. DRINK DATE 2024-2034.

Technical Sheet written by the domaine:

LOCATION : Southeast of Saumur in the municipality of Dampierre sur Loire. Plot of 0.70 hectares, very old vines of 112 years facing the Loire. Planted in 1904.

GRAPE VARIETY : Cabernet Franc

TERROIR AND VINEYARD WORK : Clay-limestone known as Turonien Supérieur and silex.

Vineyard work: organic and biodynamic: Biodyvin label and Ecocert certification.

VINIFICATION : Manual harvesting in crates, sorting table for the harvest before pressing by conveyor belt. Fermentation in Stockinger truncated conical tanks at a temperature of 16 to 22 degrees to extract the maximum of aromas and richness; fermentation completion at a temperature of 24 degrees. Maceration lasts 10 to 15 days.

FOOD PAIRINGS : Red meats, tartare, and game.