Domaine de la Cotelleraie - La Croisée 2011
Loire
Red
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A new vintage, the 2010 was rated: RVF 14.5/20
La Croisée is produced from the estate's various vineyards: it's the most widely distributed, and has made the house's reputation. A wine with red fruit aromas, floral notes, soft tannins and a long finish... Everything you need to flatter the most delicate and demanding palates!
Features
Estate
Domaine de la Cotelleraie
Cuvée
La Croisée
Vintage
2011
Designation
Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil
Region
Loire
Grape varieties
100% Cabernet Franc
Terroirs
gravelly terrace, clay-limestone slopes
Viticulture
Organic farming, vineyard conversion in progress
Harvest
manual at optimum maturity
Winemaking
traditionally run in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats
Breeding
in lightning during winter
Alcohol content
12%
Tasting & pairing
Eye
Deep, almost black colour
Nose
with aromas of red fruit and floral notes
Mouth
with tender tannins and a long aftertaste, everything is in place to flatter even the most delicate palates.
Serve
at 14-16°C
Open
1/2 hour before
Drink from
2013
Drink before
2021
Food and wine pairing
A déguster sur un pot-au-feu, une daube de boeuf, des viandes rouges, des gibiers, plus jeune sur de la charcuterie...<br/>
Domain de la Cotelleraie
Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil
Expert opinion
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.
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
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
Customer rating
4/5
on 1 reviews
Note and review by M. FRANCESCO F. Published on 28/11/2014
This wine is fresh and pleasant, very fine and natural.
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