Wine Louis Michel & Fils, Chablis Grand Cru "Grenouilles" AOC, 2015
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Chardonnay: 100%
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Tasting Notes
The wine is a brilliant light straw color with a greenish tint.
The taste of wine - clean, fresh, rich, with fine minerality and notes of green apple and jasmine flowers.
Elegant, clean aroma of the wine reveals notes of spring meadow flowers, white fruit, green pears and kiwi.
Chablis is traditionally well with seafood, especially well - with oysters. Wine also be a harmonious pair with foie gras and braised rabbit.
Interesting Facts
Dry white wine Chablis Grand Cru "Grenouilles" made from Chardonnay grapes grown on the vineyard of Grand Cru - "Grenouilles" (translated from French - "frog"), located on the top of the slope of Chablis. The first vines in the area "Grenouille" were planted in 1958. "Grenouille" included in the eight vineyards of Chablis Grand Cru, which comes a high quality harvest for the rare and expensive wines. Soils area are Upper Jurassic reservoir Cimmerian and consist of a layer of clay, which is a limestone mixed with gravel, marl and fossil oyster shells. Age of vines - 50 years. Continuous alcoholic fermentation takes place in stainless steel temperature-controlled tankers at low temperature. Fermentation provide wild yeast cultures that live on the skin of grapes. Implemented by spontaneous malolactic fermentation. Maturation on the purified lees in stainless steel tankers with minimal intervention from outside takes 16 months or more. Before bottling the wine in the airless environment takes a single light filtering. Wine cork corked. Potential storage Chablis "Grenouille", 2010 - more than 10 years.
