Alphonse Mellot "La Moussiere" Sancerre, 2022
$40.00
Alphonse Mellot "La Moussiere" Sancerre, 2022
$40.00
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La Moussièreis produced from vines between 4 and about 40 years old. Average yield: 53 hl/ha It is picked in small 25 Kg boxes. All the grapes have been sorted by a sorting table and transported into the press by conveyor belt (whole grape pressing). Area: 34 ha Grape variety: Sauvignon blanc Exposure: South - Southwest Geology: Soil: Saint-Doulchard marls (solids lumps). Subsoil: Upper Lusitanian to Portlandian period cretaceous. Planting density 8000 to 10 000 vinestocks per ha (at present about 14 ha with 10 000 vinestocks/ha. All new plantations have 9000 to 10 000 vinestocks given that the Sancerre vineyard is generally planted in accordance with the appellation order with 6,666 vinestocks per hectare. Viticulture The vines are pruned by the simple Guyot method or Royat Cordon pruning. The vineyard is trained in organic and biodynamic vine growing. Wine-making Sequential pneumatic pressing. Static settling at temperatures below 10°C for about 48 hours. Fermentation takes place in vats for 50% and the rest in new casks at temperature between 18° and 23°C. Ageing on fine lees over 7 to 8 month; About 240,000 bottles of the La Moussière Vintage are produced and it is bottled by us on the estate. |