Tessier 2023 Cour-Cheverny La Porte Dorée

"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 2023 "Porte Dorée" is a big wine, but quite 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 (12.73% alc, 1.29 gr/l RS, total acidity 4.3 gr/l, total SO2 34 g/l)