27 Muscat de Rivesaltes AC 2008
Domaine des Chênes

Grape:70% Muscat à Petits Grains, 30% Muscat d’Alexandrie (15.5% alc.)

Made by Alain Razungles, professor of oenology at Montpellier University, this is unquestionably one of France’s finest muscats. It comes from the village of Vingrau, a superb terroir, has a sumptuous concentration, a floral bouquet (jasmine) and a clean, controlled palate smacking of lexia raisins. Sweet.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Alain Razungles
Location:	Vingrau
Size of domaine:	38 hectares (inc 20 white)
Grape:	70% Muscal à Petits Grains, 30% Muscat d’Alexandrie – average 40 yr old
Terroir:	Clay and calcareous with lots of small stones on lower slopes of valleys within Pyrénées.
Viticulture:	Manual harvest second week of September.
Vinification:	Gentle slow pressing and fermentation in stainless steel vat stopped out with a neutral grape spirit leaving 119 grammes of residual sugar. Bottled in July.
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exc vat: £10.64