2015 AOC Pécharmant - Louise
2015 AOC Pécharmant - Louise
Imposing character with delicate aspects, dense texture matched with silky tannins.
Cuvée: Louise
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Merlot, Cab Sav, Cab Franc
ABV: 14%
Vintage: 2015
Grapes picked at perfect ripeness and hand destemmed. Grapes put in open barrels (2-3 year old) during 50 days. Gentle extraction. With the free-run juice it’s put back into the barrels and aged for 15 months. Then blended with the pressed juice. 1g sulphur added when bottling.
Sulphur: 15mg/L total
Soil: Parcel selection on deep white clay and flint
Yield: 15 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.