Coteaux de l’Aubance 2009


  • Appellation :        COTEAUX DE L’AUBANCE
  • Name of the wine : « Le Clos Prieur »
  • Available Vintage :     2005                                  2002                                   2001
  • Grappes :                   100% chenin
  • Terroir :                    Vintage resulting only from the piece of le Clos Prieur, on schists crimsons and sandy shales
  • Production :                 745 en 50cl                     830 en 50 cl                        1 200 50cl
  • Winemaking :             The vintage « Le Clos Prieur » is the result of the best sorting of this piece. The quality of this sorting of noble rot must have a potential degree higher than 20% by volume, to leave this vintage.
  • After a slow and long pressing, with the vertical press, a light washing (decantation) is carried out without enzymes. This must fermented in barrel without addition of yeast. This vintage is not chaptalized.
  • Aging :                       Aging in barrel from 1 to 4 wines, until the setting in bottle
  • Analys :                     Alc. 11%                 Alc. 11 %                              Alc. 11%                                                                                                                                                                                                         AT : 3.71 grs/l                   AT : 3.3 grs/l                                  AT : 6.30 grs/l                                                                                                                                                                                                  pH : 4.06                            pH : 4.04                             pH 3.83                                                                                                                                                                                                                  residual                         residual                                   residual                                                                                                                                                                                                                   sugar : 273.6 grs/          sugar : 150.6 grs/l                   sugar : 190 grs/l
  • Tasting note :            Soft attack, together on the marmalade fruit. Intense flavours of white flowers: ripe lime, acacia, fruits: pear, apricot, slightly honey and citrus fruits. Long finale taking again all the flavours of the nose. Warp of old but deep.
  • Dish and wine :          To be useful between 10° and 12° with aperitif, on a blue cheese or quite simply for him even into digestive, in front of the chimney with a cigar for the amateurs.