Cuvée Majeure
Peybonhomme-Les-Tours
T he estate’s main wine offers up a wide range of red fruit aromas: wild strawberry and blackcurrant paired with spice notes. Elegance and delicacy dominate. Straightforward in the fruity attack, fairly tannic in the mid-palate and then a finish bursting with finesse. Best drunk at 18°C within five years.
Characteristics
Profile
Charming,
elegant
Grape varieties
70% Merlot,
20% Cabernet-Franc,
10% Malbec
Terroir
Limestone-clay
Food and wine pairings
Ossobuco, porcini risotto
Cultivation: Organic and biodynamic since 2000. Double Guyot pruning, spontaneous winter grass cover. Soil tillage during the spring, every other row ploughed. Treatments combining small quantities of Bordeaux mixture with herbal teas such as horsetail or nettle.
Production
250 000 bottles
Yield
35 hl/ha
Winemaking
Fermentation using yeast native to the estate, temperature control in concrete vats. No inputs apart from limited quantities of sulphur (40mg/l)
No fining; bottled on a fruit day of the biodynamic calendar.
Certification
Certification Organic, biodynamic, vegan.
