2003 Alphonse Mellot LE DEMOISELLE Pinot Noir Sancerre Rouge
Name:
Alphonse Mellot LE DEMOISELLE Pinot Noir Sancerre Rouge - 2003
Where it's from:
>France
>Loire
>Sancerre
Price per case:
£453.33
Bottle size:
75 cl
Bottles per case:
12
Style:
Soft & Supple Reds
Grapes:
Pinot Noir
Description:
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Alphonse Mellot founded a tavern in Sancerre where one could savour the local wines and so began a flourishing trade that was to continue. In 1881 he was granted a licence to ship his wine throughout France and all over the World.
This marked the beginning of a pacific conquest which has been pursued and developed by the family business from father to son ever since, with the eldest son continuing to bear the name of the Founder Alphonse. Today, the old winemaking tradition is perpetuated by Alphonse Mellot, father and son, the 18th and 19th to bear the name.
La Demoiselle has been produced for 52 years on a 1 hectare parcel of land, on the flinty, clay soil, right on the Sancerre Peak, at the spot on the east side called La Demoiselle.
Great care is taken with this wine starting with hand harvesting where the grapes are picked and placed in small 25 kg boxes. Thanks to a vibrating table followed by a sorting table all grapes have been sorted, stemmed and transported into the wine vats by conveyor belt. It is fermented in 60 hl truncated wooden vats and aged in new casks for 14 months on average.
This Pinot Noir is a firm ruby colour with a nose that expresses the soil. Here the flinty clay is shown in hints of smoked food and cherries in kirsch, all blended in extremely silky tannins.
