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Vacqueyras Blanc Melodine Domaine Montvac 2022

Vacqueyras Blanc Melodine, Domaine Montvac 2022

White Wine from France - Rhone

2 Reviews

Ex-ballerina Cécille Dusserre makes a lovely clairette-dominated white Vacqueyras and unsurprisingly this has elegance, poise and balance with a flavour that offers hints of fennel and citrus. The 2022 is round with some complexity that is in part due to ageing in barrel. Cécille manages some 50 acres of vines without recourse to herbicides or pesticides and the domaine has been certified organic since 2014.

£22.00 Bottle

£264.00 Case of 12

In Stock

Code: RH68941

Wine characteristics

White Wine
2 - Dry
Clairette
75cl
Now to 2027
14% Alcohol
oak used but not v. noticeable
Cork, natural

Organic

Domaine de Montvac

Domaine de Montvac has long been handed down from mother to daughter and former ballerina Cécile Dusserre and her daughter Amélie are the fifth and sixth generation of her family to farm here. Cécile began working on the estate in 1991 and it has been on her watch that organic certification was won in 2014.

There are 50-hectares of vineyards in three appellations, Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Côtes-du-Rhône, with a plethora of grape varieties grown – grenache noir, syrah, mourvèdre, counoise, carignan, grenache gris, clairette rose, cinsault, roussanne, and bourboulenc all find their way into Cécile’s wines.

The harvesting and winemaking are done with a light touch, destemming and allowing native yeasts to do their work in fermentation. Intervention in the winery is kept to a minimum. Once fermented the wines mature in cool underground cellars with red wines in concrete vats and the whites in large demi-muid barrels.

These are much-lauded wines of poise and elegance befitting an ex-ballerina, while never sacrificing concentration and depth of flavour.