2022 Friandise Gamay

On the slopes of St Aubin de Luigné, Gamay blossoms wonderfully to produce fresh, easy-drinking and very aromatic wines. Alteration from sandy shale to sandstone, sometimes psammitic, sometimes carbonaceous, clayey-sandy loam texture, which gives it low vigor, strong precocity and very good maturity. Grassing and tilling the soil one in two, disbudding is complete. Then leaf stripping on the rising sun side. The harvest is manual. A light wine with little tannin, with a velvety character tha...Read More...

On the slopes of St Aubin de Luigné, Gamay blossoms wonderfully to produce fresh, easy-drinking and very aromatic wines. Alteration from sandy shale to sandstone, sometimes psammitic, sometimes carbonaceous, clayey-sandy loam texture, which gives it low vigor, strong precocity and very good maturity. Grassing and tilling the soil one in two, disbudding is complete. Then leaf stripping on the rising sun side. The harvest is manual.

A light wine with little tannin, with a velvety character that is both round and supple, very pleasant in summer to drink when young. On the nose, it reveals a sustained bouquet. Semi-carbonic maceration, fermentation and aging in thermo-regulated vats. - Importers note

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