Description

Domaine de la Solitude
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
“Réserve Secrète”

 

2020 Blend:

• • 70% Centennial Black Grenache
  • 30% Syrah

La Réserve Secrète –

• • The Grenache are from the oldest part of the Domaine de la Solitude, planted by my great-grandfather at the beginning of last century it is located on the western slope of “La Crau” on a terroir of safre.
  • The Syrahs flourish on the fresh soil of Safre des “Blachieres”.
  • These two great Terroirs are always vinified separately but only the great years, 5 vintages of the last 10 Secret Reserve is created.

Vineyards:

• • Soil: Sandy with galettes
  • Vineyard Age: 25-30 years
  • Yield: Yields are 22 hectoliters / hectare and 1200 bottles, 150 magnums produced
  • Agricultural: Sustainable

Vinification:

• • After careful crushing and destemming, the must passes to our vats for maceration and fermentation.
  • These processes take about one month at carefully controlled temperatures with both daily pumping over and hand plunging of the cap.
  • The resultant product is then pressed, and the free-run juice is separated from the press juice in order to be aged separately.
  • Malolactic fermentation follows shortly after.
  • 60% of the wine for Réserve Secrète is aged in new oak barrels for 12 months.

Suggested food association:

• • Chevreuil in sauce “grand veneur” with a confit of bilberries and chestnuts, duck with wild mushroom sauce, stuffed pigeon, capon with truffles, chocolate, clafoutis of cherries, “comté” cheese.

Tasting Notes:

• • Powerful, elegant and refined wine built for the long guard.
  • Intense nose of blackberry, blackcurrant, worn by empyreumatic notes.
  • The dense mouth of this wine blends beautifully notes of tan, cherry cherry cedar and continues with an intense and persistent finish.

 

 

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