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Domaine de la Cotelleraie - Le Vau Jaumier 2010

Loire

Red

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3/5 (2 customers)

Notes : Bettane & Desseauve 18/20, RVF 15,5/20
"Vau-jaumier needs time. It needs to be forgotten in the cellar so that its ageing can submit to the native fruit of the vintage. A great wine of tomorrow. (Le Guide Bettane & Desseauve des Vins de France 2013). A skilful alchemy between very ripe, almost candied red fruit, grape and oak tannins... Perfect!

Features

Estate

Domaine de la Cotelleraie

Cuvée

Le Vau Jaumier

Vintage

2010

Designation

Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil

Region

Loire

Grape varieties

100% Cabernet Franc

Terroirs

clay-limestone, south-facing

Viticulture

Organic farming, vineyard conversion in progress

Harvest

manual

Winemaking

alcoholic fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats for about ten days

Breeding

6 months in oak barrels

Alcohol content

13%

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Dark, brilliant, intense ruby colour

Nose

full-bodied, complex and powerful aromas, with animal and woody notes (vanilla and spice)

Mouth

a blend of very ripe, almost candied red fruit, grape tannins and oak barrel tannins

Serve

decant at 14-16°C

Open

1 hour before

Drink from

2013

Drink before

2021

Food and wine pairing

Food and wine pairing

A d&eacute;guster sur des viandes rouges, des gibiers, un jarret de veau en cro&ucirc;te...<br/>

Domain de la Cotelleraie

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Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Bettane & Desseauve

Domain rated (2018 guide) 3*Stars (High-quality production that can serve as a benchmark in its sector)

About the domain :

Gérald Vallée insists on respect for the grapes, and strives to convey in his wines all the elegance and delicacy that the appellation's highly varied terroir allows.

Gault & Millau Wine Guide

Guide des Vins Gault & Millau

Domain rated 1*Star (Serious production)

About the domain :

Gérald Vallée cultivates 27 hectares of Cabernet Franc, all of which have been converted to organic farming, with all the care one can imagine: tilling the soil, leaf thinning... The entire production is claimed as Saint-Nicolas de Bourgueil appellation. In the cellar, no yeast or enzymes are added to the vats.

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

Domain rated (2018 guide) Selected (We remind you that this guide is a prize list and as such, all the domains that appear in it, even without a star, represent, in our eyes, the excellence of French production).

About the domain :

Gérald Vallée set himself the challenge of switching to manual harvesting in 2004, when 90% of the Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil appellation was still machine-picked. Good for him, because his wines, which used to appear episodically in our tastings of each new vintage, have since earned their stripes as great Cabernet Francs. We love the precise fruitiness of the entry-level wines, the chalky tension expressed in Le Vau Jaumier, a hillside cleared twenty years ago, and the mellow spirit of L'Envolée, a deep, opulent Bourgueil.

Customer reviews

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3/5

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Note and review by M. LAURENT F. Published on 05/12/2016

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Note and review by M. ERIC B. Published on 09/01/2014

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