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Alphonse Mellot Cuvee Edmond Sancerre Blanc 2019

Alphonse Mellot Cuvee Edmond Sancerre Blanc 2019

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What is special about this wine?

Most of the Sancerre are not fermented or matured in new oak barrels.  This wine, different from most Sancerre, is fermented and matured for 10 to 14 months in 60% new casks.  This results in a richer and more powerful Sancerre with great depth and complexity.

The appearance: Pale gold yellow in colour with light green sheen - brilliant, bright and clear - a young honest appearance.  A rich majestic nose.  All is rich, ripe and powerful, whether it is fruity or floral.  Density, depth and balanced graceful "majestic nature" are established from the outset. Honey, vanilla, lemon, brioche etc., follow each other as if in a daydream, all orchestrated through a new woody tone.
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Harvesting

The Edmond Vintage is produced from old La Moussière vines between 40 and 87 years old.

Average yield: 41 hl/ha

It is picked in small 25 Kg boxes. All the grapes have been sorted by a sorting table and transported into the press by conveyor belt (whole grape pressing).


Area: 6 ha parcel.


Grape variety: Sauvignon blanc


Exposure: South - Southwest


Geology:
Soil: Saint-Doulchard marls (solids lumps).
Subsoil: Upper Lusitanian to Portlandian period cretaceous.


Planting density

8,000 to 10,000 vinestocks per hectare.


Viticulture

The vines are pruned by the simple Guyot method or Royat Cordon pruning.

The vineyard is trained in organic and biodynamic vine growing.


Wine - making

Sequential pneumatic pressing.
Static settling at temperatures below 10°C for about 48 hours.

Fermentation takes place in new casks for 60%, 20% in one wine casks and 20% in two wines casks at a temperature between 18 and 24°C.
The wood comes from predominantly French Bertrange oaks, the firewood of which is average and honey coloured. It is used for 228 l and 300 l casks, and 320 l flutes.

It is aged on fine lees and regularly pumped over a variable ageing period depending on the year (10 to 14 months on average).

About 26,000 bottles of the Edmond Vintage are produced and it is bottled by us on the estate.

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