'Clos de Pavée' Bourgueil 2021

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This is a young, crunchy Bourgueil full of bright cranberry and cherry fruit and plenty of the herbaceous capsicum notes you'd expect from the grape. Highly fragrant with charred g reen pepper on the nose and the finish leads to bitter dark chocolate. A really delicious, fresh expression of Bourgueil Pierre has changed the process up a little with the 2021 vintage, now opting for an 80/20 blend of de-stemmed maceration and whole bunch carbonic, keeping the overall tannic structure fine. Élevage now follows the same ratios, the larger number being raised in fibreglass cuve and the smaller in a collection of old, used barriques that Pierre has recently acquired, introducing a rounder feel to the finished wine. The grapes, as ever, come from the young vines of Cabernet Franc planted over gravelly limestone in the beautiful walled clos that gives the wine its name. Show more