11 Cahors AC 2006 Nuits des Rossignols
Domaine de la Berangeraie

Grape:100% Malbec (13.5% alc.)

This comes from a due south facing hillside and Jurassic marls, that allow for a full ripening of the thick skinned malbec grape. Vinified in cuve, it was then aged for 10 months in one year old barrels which help to bring it on a little quicker than the cuve aged Maurin. It is already textbook Cahors with rich blueberry fruit, strong notes of liquorice and a hint of spice. For drinking now to 2012.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Bérenger family
Location:	Grezels (with vineyards also in Floressas)
Size of domaine:	20 hectares of which La Nuit is 1.7 hectare. 6 to 8000 bts produced.
Grape:	100% Malbec on 91B root stsocks. 37 year old vines trained to single guyot and at a density of 5000 per hectare.
Terroir:	Kimmeridgien limestone at 200 metres above sea level with a North West exposure.
Viticulture:	Prune to 5 buds (generally). Debuds and green harvests. Leave grass to grow. Ploughed deep once every 3 years. Vineyards treated organically - hence no herbicides or pesticides are used. Hand harvesting with several 'tri'. 38 H/H.
Vinification:	100% destalked. Indigenous yeasts. Alcoholic fermentations in cement cuve. 3 remontages (and one pigeage per day) over a 15 day alcoholic fermentation. Temperature never exceeds 30ºC. Total cuvaison time is 6 weeks. Then transferred to 100% 1 year old oak barrels (4 tonneliers) of both 200 and 500 litres. Racked 4 times. 12 month elévage. Light filtration by plaque, bottled in June after 21 months.
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exc vat: £10.21