Description
Region: Condrieu, Northern Rhône, France
Producer: Vins de Vienne (Chavanay)
Vintage: 2018
Grape: Viognier (late harvest)
Type: Sweet/dessert wine
Size: 50CL
Tasting Notes:
A rare late-harvest Viognier — wonderfully sweet tangerine and apricot flavours without the heaviness typical of many dessert wines. Rich but graceful, at a relatively gentle 11% ABV.
Food pairing:
Western cuisine: Foie gras, blue cheese, fruit tarts, almond-apricots tart, “fourme d’Ambert”
Asian cuisine: Mango sticky rice, pineapple cake, spiced desserts
Winemaking:
0.5 Ha,Granites,Hand-picked.
3 consecutive harvest selections of Botrytised grapes. Full grapes pressing. Cold settling during 48h. No use of chemical inputs other than SO2 . Fermentations in vats at low temperature with indigenous yeasts for about 4 months. Winegrowing: of 6 months on lees in French oak casks. Tangential filtration before bottling.
Vins de Vienne
Founded in 1996 by three of the Northern Rhône's most respected winemakers — Yves Cuilleron, Pierre Gaillard and François Villard — Vins de Vienne began with a single mission: to bring the ancient, Roman-era vineyards of Seyssuel back to life. Long forgotten after phylloxera wiped them out, these steep schist hillsides once produced wines celebrated by Pliny the Elder. Today, the estate spans nearly 25 hectares across Seyssuel and other top Northern Rhône appellations — Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph, Saint-Péray, Crozes-Hermitage and Cornas — crafting Syrah, Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne wines known for their precision, elegance and true sense of place.