Wine Chateau de Tracy, Pouilly-Fume AOC, 2015
Tasting Notes
Wine pale yellow color with golden highlights.
Taste wine - rounded, pleasant, with notes of black currant kidney, lemon shades and long aftertaste alive.
Intense aroma of the wine reveals notes of kidney blackcurrant, pear, white peach and nectarine, nuances of citrus and pepper.
Wine is served as an aperitif, it is recommended to white meat and seafood.
Interesting Facts
Wine Chateau de Tracy, Pouilly-Fume - the pride of the family d'Asse. It combines freshness, complexity and minerality. Harvesting grapes for wine production is a manual process, berries undergo a double selection. After gentle pressing wort used only the first extraction. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks for three weeks at a temperature not exceeding 22 ° C. Excerpt on the lees in stainless steel tanks lasts eight months.
Vintage 2012 differs balanced maturity and excellent flavor. Storage capacity of wine is 5 years.
Chateau de Tracy - Castle is surrounded by vineyards, whose name matches the name of the oldest villages in the region. The castle is home to the Count's family d'Estyut d'Asse that deals with wine in 1596, although the first charter of vineyards, which are located in the Chateau, dated 1396 year. The first representatives of the Scottish noble family Stutt served in the great Scottish army, who migrated from Scotland to France during the reign of Charles VII and the Hundred Years War. After service in the army of their name was changed somewhat d'Estutt or Destutt. Vineyards farms are mainly located in the south-west. Clay and limestone soils, which contain a large amount of silicon, create powerful wines. Age of vines is different. This can be a very young age from 20-50, are also found fifty years vines and it plays a very important role in a variety of wines. First wines were bottled Chateau at the end of the XIX century by Jacques de Tracy, and their sale was carried out not only in France but also in Russia.
