White St-Joseph 2023

• Grape variety: 30% old Marsanne vines and 70% Roussane.
• Light straw yellow color with a golden hue, brilliant.
• Very developed and refined nose with notes of orchard fruits (apricot, yellow peach) and white flowers (acacia, hawthorn).
• In the mouth it is a fatty wine with a nice minerality and long finish.
• Terroir : Granitic
• Place says : Mève, Montelier, Boissey, Blanchard in a single village: Chavanay.
• Manual harvest in 23 kg boxes.
• Vinification : Bucher pneumatic pressing, destemming
• Malo-lactic fermentation on lees in oak barrels and demi-muids.
• Battoning once every two months, only for natural self-protection.
• Aging: 11 months in French oak barrels and half-muids.
• Serving temperature: 5 to 10 ° C
• Guard:  15 years
  
  

Food and wine pairing : sea scallop salad, freshwater and sea fish, trout, crayfish, sole meunière and poultry, Saint Marcellin bricks with thyme and chopped hazelnuts.