60 Cairanne Blanc AC 2009 Réserve des Seigneurs
Domaine de l’Oratoire Saint-Martin

Grape:50% Roussanne, 40% Clairette, 10% Viognier (13.5% alc.)

The Alary brothers choose cooler eastern facing slopes in the hills to the northeast of the Cairanne appellation for this white. It is a delicious blend with exotic fruits, touch of honey and a rare freshness. For drinking now to 2011.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Fréderic & François Alary. The family have worked the vineyard since 1692.
Location:	Cairanne
Size of domaine:	28 hectares (7000 bts Cairanne Blanc produced)
Grape:	40% Clairette, 50% Roussanne, 10% Viognier. 30 yr old vines. 5000 vines per hectare in gobelet formation. Selection massale
Terroir:	Clay/limestone. Planted with aspect to east in north-east sector of Cairanne only 200 mtrs away from edge of Rasteau appellation. On a 20° slope (only 35% of Cairanne is on slopes). Quartier called Les Douyes. Yield = 45 hectos per hectare.
Viticulture:	The vines are worked naturally without chemical fertilisers or pesticides. The soil is ploughed and grass allowed to grow in alternate rows. Debud severely in May. Hand harvest – severe sorting both in the vineyard and back at the cave via a table de trie.
Vinification:	Chill grapes down to 8° or 10° initially then quite a low ferment at 18° - only indigenous yeasts used. Stainless steel cuve aged – left on the fine lees until end of April. Malos blocked for this wine but carried out for Haut Coustias. Fined with isinglass and bottled beginning of May.
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exc vat: £8.94