2020 AOC Blaye - Pirouette
2020 AOC Blaye - Pirouette
With the blend changing each year depending on what the fruit gives: in 2020 it’s Merlot & Cab Sav (the Cab Franc was good enough to go into a new cuvee on it's own.) Deep plummy fruit fleshes out a tightly-wound mineral core.
Cuvée: Pirouette
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: 80% Merlot 20% Cab Sauvignon
ABV: 13%
Vintage: 2020
Winemaking: Everything is destemmed, before a slow, gentle maceration. They do about 3 pump-overs in total at the beginning of the fermentation; but then leave it alone: they do not want to over-extract the wine. Once the wine has undergone malo, it settles in the vats before racking it to concrete tanks; where it spends 12 months. Bottling at the end of August 2021 in a waning moon.
Sulphur: 15mg/l total
Soil: Gravelly soil and limestone