Le C du Chai Cuvée Noble 2015
Bordeaux AOC
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Botrytised or nobly rotten grapes make the world’s finest (and most expensive) sweet wines. Here, however, this golden white is totally dry, yet still complex with rich, honeyed and citrusy fruit. A most elegant creation from JMS and team at Le Chai.
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The Wine
This luscious white is the result of a time when Tony Laithwaite worked with Danish winemaker Peter Vinding Diers. Peter was renowned for transforming the face of white Graves in the 1980s. He and Tony made a superb, dry, botrytised Sémillon and it was Tony’s retelling of this that inspired Chai winemaker Jean-Marc Sauboua to try his hand. Two thirds of the grapes are from a special lieu-dit in the Entre Deux Mers. The rest is late harvested, botrytised Sémillon from Bordeaux’s renowned Loupiac region. This portion had the full works – fermentation in part new barrels, with 5 months' ageing on its lees in oak, but still the oak is subtle. With a gentle toasty note and real lemony zing, this white is tops with pork belly or with salmon.
"Full and complex nose of apples and apricot. Ripe, complex, fruity. An excellent food match"
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