Description
CELLAR INFORMATION A long, cool fermentation follows in stainless steel to
preserve freshness and aroma. Keeping the wine in contact with its
lees for nine months, combined with stirring the wine each month
for a short period, imparts great flavour and body into the wine, and
no oak aging is needed at any stage.
After blending the wine is stored in glass vats and bottled just prior
to shipment to retain all the freshness of the herbaceous Sauvignon
Blanc. The result is the essence of the finest quality Pouilly Fumé. VINEYARD INFORMATION 100% Sauvignon Blanc harvested from 25-35 year old vines,
destemmed and deleafed, then pressed by three gentle presses,
designed to give 80% ‘free run juice’ (most presses only allow 40% to
run off).
A unique feature of the wines of de Ladoucette is that unlike the
majority of wineries in the world they only use free run juice. This
juice is squeezed from the grapes by gravity alone, no pressure is
needed, just the sheer weight of the grapes. This process avoids any
harshness or stalkiness that can come when skins and pips are
crushed during normal pressing methods.
