Wine Domaine Yves Cuilleron, Condrieu AOC Ayguets 2004, 0.5 L
Tasting Notes
Wine Kondriё Ege has a beautiful caramel-golden color.
Wine Condrieu Ayguets demonstrates a rich, delicate flavor and thick with well-balanced acidity, notes of peaches and apricots, blend harmoniously with notes of candied tangerines and caramel.
The wine has a complex and rich aroma with notes of ripe fruit and toffee.
This wine is in its pure form, and goes well with desserts, fruit, blue cheese and foie gras.
Interesting Facts
Delicious sweet white wine Condrieu Ayguets created from the best grapes, which grows on the terraces with southern exposure on the hill Shavane. Age vines is 30 years. Harvested very late - from mid-October to mid-November, for the manufacture of wine selected slightly dried berries affected by noble rot - Botrytis. Viognier grape variety from which the wine Kondriё Ege - very rare and only occurs mainly in the northern part of the valley Ron. The wines from this grape are always obtained very fragrant. Features of production: fermentation takes place in oak barrels at a controlled temperature. The wine is aged in oak barrels for 8 months. Storage capacity Kondriё Ege - more than 10 years.
Three generations of the family Kyuyerona Yves (Yves Cuilleron) produced wine from both father and mother. They owned vineyards on prironskih terraces constructed by the Romans.
In 1920, the grandfather on the paternal side Yves Claude Kyuyeron established a farm. By 1947 he began to sell his wine in bottles. In 1960, Uncle Yves Antoine Kyuyeron becomes manager of the company. Yves graduated from one of the best schools in France and oenological trained winemakers in the Rhone. In 1987 Yves begins to work in the company and decided to settle in the village Verlё where his mother grew up. In the same year, Yves gets 3.5 ha of land in Condrieu and Saint Joseph's, and in 1989 in Cote Rotie. When Antoine Kyuyeron retired parents Willow going to sell land, but he did not hesitate for a second, took over management of the company.
According to Yves, without rigorous approach can not create good products, he wanted to understand and control everything. To be sure in the creation of unique wines Eve rejected all the ideas and refused to be copied by other manufacturers. From the outset, it tracks all stages of production - from planting grapes to bottling the wine in the bottle.
In 1992 Verlё built a new cellar, the expansion of which is produced in 1999. The main modernization took place in 2007, have been redesigned building for production, endurance and wine storage.
Today Yves Kyuyeron is one of the most exciting wine valley Ron, he actively took up the revival of the former glory of the appellation Kondriё. Thanks to careful selection, rejection of insecticides and hand picking them to create high-quality wines. At harvest time he personally sneaks on terraces, instructing builders to work slowly and carefully. He is committed to continuous improvement of methods of wine production, achieving ever greater complexity and richness of its Kondriё.
