Tessier 2022 'La Porte Dorée' Cour-Cheverny

"La Porte Dorée" is from 65 year-old  Romorantin vines grown on clay soils with limestone bedrock. The juice undergoes a long, slow alcoholic fermentation and malolactic fermentation, and the wine ages in old foudres and barriques. Minimal SO2 is added before bottling. The 2022 "Porte Dorée" is a big wine, but bone-dry with complex aromas of pear, citrus, lime-flower, white pepper, almond and caramel. The palate shows ripe pear, quince, citrus, almond and intense stony flavors that coat the mouth and are very dense and long. This is a very young wine that will benefit from decanting or 3 to 10 years of cellaring. Delicious! DL (14.51% alc, 0.42 gr/l RS, total acidity 4.2 gr/l, total SO2 14 g/l)