Château Montfollet - Icône blanc 2019
Bordeaux
White
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Médaille d'Or
Concours Lyon
This 100% Sauvignon, vinified and aged in new barrels, is the ideal wine for sharing. A complex nose of citrus fruit and woody notes continues with a beautiful minerality with a rich mouthfeel. An ideal companion to a cold fish terrine, for example.
Features
Estate
Château Montfollet
Cuvée
Icône
Vintage
2019
Designation
Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
Region
Bordeaux
Grape varieties
100% Sauvignon
Terroirs
Clay-gravel
Viticulture
HVE sustainable cultivation: natural weeding, selective pruning, optimization of grape ripening
Harvest
Manual with manual sorting at reception
Winemaking
Gentle pressing in a pneumatic press, pre-fermentation operations under carbon dioxide, cold settling, entonnage in new barrels for alcoholic fermentation.
Breeding
For 8 months on their fine lees and stirred regularly.
Alcohol content
14,5%
Tasting & pairing
Eye
Gold with green highlights
Nose
Complex citrus and woody notes
Mouth
Beautiful minerality with a rich mouthfeel
Serve
AT 15-17°C
Drink before
2025
Guard
3-6 years
Food and wine pairing
Enjoy as an aperitif, with cold cod, fried camembert, capon stuffed with apples, monkfish with morel mushrooms, cold fish with mayonnaise, etc.
Château Montfollet
Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Domaine rated 2*Stars (A serious and recommendable production, but a little more regular and homogeneous than the previous one)
About the domain :
The 67 hectares of vines on this family estate overlook the Gironde estuary, just opposite the most prestigious Margaux crus. Concerned with revealing the potential of these magnificent terroirs while respecting the environment, Dominique Raimond uses every means of cultivation and vinification to achieve the production of a great Blayais wine. The whites are generally highly aromatic, with good tension and just the right balance of freshness. The Côtes-de-Bourg Cuvée Altus is always top-notch, as is the Grand Vin en Blaye-Côtes-de-Bordeaux. A flagship property in both appellations. Montfollet is a member of the Châteaux Solidaires association, which groups together ten Blayais winegrowers who retain their own identity while sharing cellars and working tools in a cooperative spirit. Château Haut-Prieur, part of this association, is superb in the 2016 vintage.
Decanter
Area rated Recommended
Guide Hachette des vins
Domaine noté (guide 2022) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)
About the domain :
Ch. Montfollet, one of the spearheads of the Blayais and Bourgeais regions, has been run since 1991 by Dominique Raimond, who also owns several other châteaux: Haut Lalande, Graulet, Merigot, Haut Grela and Puy d'Amour. Dominique Raimond is a member of the Cars cooperative (1937), renamed "Châteaux solidaires" in 2011, which vinifies the harvests of a dozen carefully selected member châteaux separately.
Wine Enthusiast
Domaine noté (guide 2021) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Wine Enthusiast)
James Suckling
Graded area (2021 guide) Recommended
Concours Lyon
Wine rated Gold Medal
Customer reviews
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