Domaine Chiroulet - La Côte d'Heux 2020
Sud Ouest
White
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14/20
Bettane & Desseauve
With its bright, limpid color, La Côte d'Heux is an intense, fruity white evoking exotic fruits such as mango. Complexity, character and fatness dominate the palate, resulting in a powerful, expressive wine. Best served with roast free-range poultry, for example...
Features
Estate
Domaine Chiroulet
Cuvée
La Côte d'Heux
Vintage
2020
Designation
IGP Côtes de Gascogne
Region
Southwest
Grape varieties
100% Gros Manseng
Terroirs
Deep, fine, brown clay soils on limestone bedrock on the south coast
Viticulture
Reasoned
Harvest
Overripe
Winemaking
Direct pressing on old vines, 6-8 hour skin maceration on young vines, static settling without enzymes, fermentation in wooden vats, very slowly, sometimes over a month, at 18-20°C.
Breeding
Half in oak vats of 30 to 55 hl and the other half in cement vats, stirring weekly for 2 months.
Alcohol content
13.5%
Residual sugars
3.5 g/l
Tasting & pairing
Nose
Very aromatic, discreet spicy woodiness
Mouth
Yellow fruit, exotic (pineapple), dry fruit filigree, voluminous and fat with good tension.
Serve
AT 8-10°C
Drink before
2025
Food and wine pairing
Serve as an aperitif, with scallops in saffron sauce, fish in sauce, white meat, poultry, mature cheeses...
Domaine Chiroulet
IGP Côtes de Gascogne
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated 14/20 (Vintage 2017) (Good wine)
Domaine rated (2020 guide) 1*Star (A serious, recommendable production, in line with what one has the right to expect from its appellation(s))
About the domain :
Philippe Fezas has been pampering his vines since 1995, when he took the plunge and added winemaker to consultant to Seguin-Moreau. Committed to making expressive wines, which are distributed to wine merchants and fine restaurants, he takes great care in designing his parcels, in contrast to the surrounding production. His two côtes face the Pyrenees, with a variation of soils between fine clays (côte d'Heux) and more chalky soils (terres blanches).
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 :
Heir to 4 generations of winegrowers established here since 1893, Philippe Fezas gazes out from his 50-hectare estate at the small 13th-century church in the nearby hamlet of Heux. In the rows of vines blows the chiroula, a beneficial wind that dries the bunches, which will give flocs, armagnacs and Côtes de Gascogne of high expression. A sure bet.
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