2023 VDF - Idoine
2023 VDF - Idoine
Dark-fruited but juicy, black cherry and cassis up front, framed with a lovely tart snap of tannin and great chinotto bitterness to close.
Cuvée: Idoine
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Merlot
Vintage: 2023
Winemaking: Merlot from the home vineyard on clay-limestone, vines 30-40 years old. Whole-bunch macerated for 4 days with no extraction, pressed gently to tank, aged for 6 months, bottled with no additions.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Clay limestone
Laurent's dad had 40 hectares and sold 37 of them back in 2000. He changed career but kept 3 hectares. The Grenache have been planted by Laurent's granddad in 1949. Laurent used to work at the Verre Volé for few years and then he went to learn winemaking with Alain Castex (Le Casot des Mailloles). In October 2017 he took over with Melissa his father 3hectares. All wines are made without any use of chemicals, are unfined and unfiltered and not sulphured.