Touraine Gamay "Mon Cher", Noëlla Morantin
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Organic

Touraine Gamay "Mon Cher", Noëlla Morantin - 2020

Item # 24331 750mL

This pleasant Gamay coming from vineyards formerly owned by the Clos Roche Blanche winery. The fruit was fermented whole-cluster and then aged in both 500 liter arrels and fiberglass tanks.

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Color
Red
Vintage
2020
Country
France
Region
Loire
Sub-Region
Touraine
Producer
Noella Morantin
Grape Variety
Gamay
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Production Methods

Organic

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

After a chance encounter with a professor of viticulture, Noella Morantin was compelled to change her career path due to her new obsession of wine. Starting her own estate in 2008 after Didier Barrouillet of Clos Roche Blanche decided to retire and suggested that she rent parcels of his famed land, Morantin worked with the esteemed parcels before buying 6 hectares of her own. All cultivated organically and vinified without manipulation, this Mon Cher is Morantin's expression of Loire Gamay. The vines were planted in the 1990s in clay/limestone/flint. Destemmed fruit is fermented and aged in older foudre and fiberglass tanks, typical of her style. This wine is incredibly opaque with ample dark fruit: mulberry, black cherry, frozen blueberries, and herbs. There's a sculpted mineral profile here with grippy tannins. Delicious!

- JOS

Glossary

Loire

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