Touraine Gamay "Mon Cher", Noëlla Morantin
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Touraine Gamay "Mon Cher", Noëlla Morantin - 2022

Item # 24331 750 mL

This red wine coming from Gamay vineyards formerly owned by the Clos Roche Blanche winery. The fruit was fermented whole-cluster and then aged in both 500 liter barrels and tanks. Pair with cured meats and cheese.

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Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.


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After a chance encounter with a professor of viticulture, Noella Morantin was compelled to change her career path due to her new obsession of wine. Starting her own estate in 2008 after Didier Barrouillet of Clos Roche Blanche decided to retire and suggested that she rent parcels of his famed land, Morantin worked with the esteemed parcels before buying 6 hectares of her own. All cultivated organically and vinified without manipulation, this Mon Cher is Morantin's expression of Loire Gamay. The vines were planted in the 1990s in clay/limestone/flint. Destemmed fruit is fermented and aged in older foudre and fiberglass tanks, typical of her style. This wine is incredibly opaque with ample dark fruit: mulberry, black cherry, frozen blueberries, and herbs. There's a sculpted mineral profile here with grippy tannins. Delicious!

- JOS

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Loire

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