Structure
Drinking window
Best 5 to 50 years from vintage.
vintage5 yrs50 yrs52 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: walnut, curry, ginger
Palate: walnut, spice
Savagnin grown only on Lias marl and picked past 13 potential degrees, then six years minimum under the veil. Vandelle describes a yellow robe and a powerful nose of walnut, curry and ginger, and calls it a keeping wine that holds its virtues for more than a century.
What it pairs with
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Comte
The domaine pours its veil-aged range with Comte throughout. -
Chicken with morels
The regional dish for a wine of this savour. -
Spiced dishes
Vandelle names curry and ginger in the wine itself.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Philippe Vandelle · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Savagnin (100%)
- Classification
- L'Etoile AOC
- Oak
- A minimum of six years in cask with neither topping up nor racking, under the yeast veil. Bottled in the 62 cl clavelin
- Drinking window
- 5-50 from vintage