2020 VDF - Splash!
2020 VDF - Splash!
Using Semillon once destined for his families sweet Monbazillac production, Vincent has tapped into a better way to channel the grape’s hidden energies: zero sulphur pet nat!
Cuvée: Splash!
Style: Sparkling
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Semillon
ABV: 10.5%
Vintage: 2020
Winemaking: 40-year-old Sémillon. Direct pressing and fermentation with native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. Chilled mid-ferment to rest for 2 weeks before bottling, then fermentation continues. Not disgorged. 1-3g residual sugar per bottle.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Clay and limestone
Yield: 50 hl / ha
A 40-hectare estate, fully organic since 2013. The 8th generation to work at the estate; Vincent Alexis joined his father in 2010 and talked him into bottling their own wines instead of selling them for bulk blending. 25ha are white. Vincent has recently planted lots more traditional grape varieties, Sulphur is only used on bottling for the Bergecrac Blanc and the Monbazillac. Soils are clay on limestone with iron and flint in the Pecharmant vineyards.