The Beaujolais
Blanc represents less than 1% of the whole Beaujolais
production, which means 10 000 Hl. The majority of Beaujolais Blanc is
produced in the northern zone, near Mâconnais
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- Grape variety: Chardonnay
- Vine’s average: 28 years
- Surface: 4 Ha
- Yield: 60 Hl/ Ha
- Location:
Piémont
- Exposure: south – south-east
- Soil: granitic sandy – silty
- Pruning:
single bending
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- Immediate pressing.
- Settling of the juice statically.
- Long fermentation: 10 days.
- A controlled temperature
is maintained: 16°C.
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- No
malolactic fermentation is made.
- Preservation in stainless steel tanks to avoid
oxidation and to keep the young character.
- Earth and membrane filtered
to stabilize the malolactic development.
- Fining with bentonite.
- Cold tartaric stabilization
- Bottled in Spring.
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- Alcohol: 12,6°C
- Ph: 3.5
- Total acidity: 3.3
- Sugar: less than 2g
- Robe: lively and
brilliant.
- Nose:
Chardonnay, very intense, melting the flavour of white flowers, hawthorn, bramble...
with a final of linden-tree.
- Palate:
soft and fresh, delicate and very soft.
- Dominant: an intense aroma of Chardonnay.
- Development and Laying-Down
Time: 2 to 4 years. Its lightly acidity doesn’t allow
a long preservation.
- To be served: chilled, 12°C.
- Goes with:
starters, fish dishes. Dublin
bay prawns with whites of leeks, fillet of bass with orange butter,
goujonette de sole meinière aux moules, salmon escalope with oyster, ...
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