Château Tour d'Auron Bordeaux Supérieur 2016 (750ml) Languedoc Languedoc Sparkling

Château Tour d'Auron Bordeaux Supérieur 2016 (750ml) Languedoc Languedoc SparklingChateau Tour dAuron is a small production estate producing sought after wines with excellent aging potential. Medium to deep cherry red, the wine shows good intensity and a complex bouquet of truffles, violets and rich fruits. On the palate it is medium to full bodied with tannins that give structure and frame the black cherry and blueberry fruits. Well balanced, elegant, complex and long.

This will drink well today with a decant (I followed this bottle for two days) and will shine for a good two decades

which ensures only the highest quality berries are delivered to the fermentation tanks

Cool fermentation in stainless steel yields a fresh and exuberant wine with crispness and clean varietal aromas and flavors of apple

92Jeb Dunnuck Spiced aromas of roasted sage

such as poultry

The 2023 vintage in Washington state is what we like to call normal

Bursting with characteristic creme cases

Most of this fruit comes from Mazzei's Caggio property

the extraction is very subtle

we try and maintain our ferments at relatively low temperature as this is our best regulator for rate of ferment

and black fruits as well as sandalwood

Gilles is now managing an estate of 8 Ha