Wine Domaine Yves Cuilleron, Saint-Joseph AOC Le Lombard 2006
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Marsanne: 100%
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Tasting Notes
Wine bright golden color.
The wine has a fleshy, fruity taste with excellent depth, sweetness and bright acidity. In the air the taste of wine becomes deeper and gets smoky shade, but remains as fresh, juicy and fruity.
The wine has a smoky aroma with hints of pear, quince and herbal tea. Depth of flavor attach notes of white tobacco.
The wine goes well with spicy Mediterranean dishes such as seafood salad with melon and orange or sweet passion fruit sauce. Wine can also be a good complement to grilled fillet of sea urchin, fish sauce, shellfish or risotto with mushrooms.
Interesting Facts
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, Yves grandfather paternal Claude Kyuyeron established economy. 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 production techniques, achieving ever greater complexity and richness of its wines.
