Les Malgagnes

In the glass

Aroma: blackberry, iris, wet pebble, tobacco leaf

Palate: dark cherry, fine tannin, iron mineral, savoury length

Single-vineyard Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil from gravel-over-tuffeau soils. More structured than La Source, with iron-mineral spine and a savoury, tobacco-laced length.

What it pairs with

• Slow-cooked duck legs with cherry
  Duck and the wine's iron and dark-fruit register align.
• Beef bourguignon
  Long-cooked beef and red-wine reduction echo the wine's mineral length.
• Reblochon with new potatoes
  Soft cow's-milk cheese sharpens the wine's saline grip.

History

Les Malgagnes is a single-vineyard Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil cuvee from a 2-hectare gravel-over-tuffeau parcel. The Amiraults bottle it as a flagship of the AOC.

1. 1992: First vintage of Les Malgagnes

Facts

Producer

Domaine Yannick Amirault · visiting guide

Grapes

Cabernet Franc (100%)

Classification

Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil AOC

Oak

16 to 18 months in oak demi-muids, around 20 percent new

ABV

13.0%

Price

EUR 24 to 36 at retail

Drinking window

6 to 18 from vintage

First vintage

1992

Biodynamic

Biodynamic Practicing

Organic

ORGANIC CERTIFIED

Vegan

Yes (no animal-derived fining)

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