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Chardonnay
Pays d’Oc IGP
Complex & aromatic
Tasting
Tasting Notes
With its clear and limpid lovely golden colour, this wine has fruity aromas of apple and apricot, white flowers and hazelnut, with a slightly buttery finish and subtle vanilla hints.
Food Matching
Serve chilled (12°C). This wine is best enjoyed as an aperitif and with seafood, fish and charcuterie.
Suggestion : Chardonnay perfectly matches with mussles !
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Development
Soil
This wine is produced from Chardonnay grape variety grown in different terroirs of the Pays d’Oc region: from the Cévennes at an altitude of 400 m, the clay-limestone and basaltic soils giving freshness and acidity to the wine. Rich stony clay from the Hérault plain gives rich round wines, from the Aude Valley , claylimestone soils of the Minervois region giving fruity wines, and finally from the Limoux region.
Winemaking
35% of the final blend is aged in oak barrels. Slow fermentation with control of tempreatures. The wine is aged for 9 months in oak barrels with lees stirring. The malolactic fermentation takes place, to gives dairy notes and complexity to the final blend.