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La Vallée
CRU DES COTES DU RHONE CAIRANNE WHITE
This wine is an invitation to explore a geologically unique terroir in Cairanne, the Gayère Valley, renowned for the freshness of its marbled clay.
THE 2022 VINTAGE
The Roussanne particularly stood out in this vintage for its complexity and smoothness, giving body and depth to La Vallée 2022. Its freshness come principally from the Clairette, with the White Grenache adding texture and nuance.
Golden highlights illuminate the pale-yellow hue of this wine. With great finesse and elegance, the 2022 vintage is distinguished by notes of lime blossom, acacia and fresh pineapple. It is delicate on the palate, with barrel ageing adding length, richness and complexity to the aromas. The finish reveals notes of lightly peated beechwood smoke.
La Vallée 2022 is a permanent invitation to explore all the nuances of these Rhone Valley grapes, just waiting to be discovered. All in finesse and elegance, this generous wine with its lightly oaky notes is the pure expression of the upper slopes of the Gayère.
From 20,00€
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Format | 75cl |
| Bottles number | |
| ABV | 14% |
The Gayère Valley takes its name from river that runs through it. It is renowned for the freshness of its marbled clay soils which make it an ideal terroir for gastronomic, fresh, and elegant white wines. Situated to the south of the village of Cairanne, below the road that runs from Cairanne to Rasteau, this terroir is made up of colluvions rich in moisture retaining silt, with few stones but occasional gravel and pebbles. The clay is marbled, with limestone nodules and abundant pseudo-mycelia, forming substrata that enable to vines to suffer from only moderate hydric stress.
Parcel numbers
Clairette n°50
Roussanne n°29 & 49
White Grenache n°8
Viognier n°30
Age of vines
10 years
Altitude
100m
Yield
40 hL/ha
HARVESTING & VINIFICATION
The grape bunches are picked whole, partly by hand, into small crates of 16kg maximum, in the cool of the early morning for these exceptional parcels.
On arrival at the cellar the grapes pass into a vibrating hopper to preserve the integrity of the berries. They are then entirely destemmed, and directly pressed in an axially fed, closed cage pneumatic press. Only the core of the press wine is retained from 0.6 bars.
This is followed by barrel fermentation for the entire blend. Then, the wines are cold settled at 12°C to retain only the fine lees, and then seeded with selected yeasts. The natural levels of malic acid are preserved by blocking malolactic fermentation. The lees are stirred into suspension before the wine is racked and then aged on fine lees.
The grape varieties that are fermented in barrel remain there for 11 months before being bottled.
Harvest date
Roussanne : 30 August 2022
White Grenache : 23 sept. 2022
Clairette : 4 oct. 2022
Viognier : 29 August 2022
Temperature of grapes at reception
15°C
ENJOYING IT AT ITS BEST
The ideal serving temperature is 11 / 12°C.
La Vallée 2022 can be consumed immediately or be cellared for up to five years. It is the perfect companion for savoury panna cotta with asparagus and parmesan cream sauce, roast veal in a herb crust, or an exotic fruit pavlova.
TASTING NOTES
96/100 – DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS 2024
Gold Medal
ANALYSIS
Residual sugar
Final filtration
Tartaric stabilisation
Protein stabilisation
Total acidity
pH
Malic Acid
1.8 g/L
0,65 microns
10 g/hl
40 g /hl
3,60 g H2SO4/L
3,40
1,84 g/L
TASTING VIDEO
La Vallée 2021 by E.COUZI
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