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(1) 2018 Chateau Yvonne Saumur-Champigny L’ile Quatre Sous
(2) 2016 Melaric Clos de Messemé Saumur Puy Notre Dame
I went on the Internet to find out more information about the wine and the makers and came upon this site from Four Corners European Wine Imports: Yannick Amirault, Bourgueil, Loire Valley.
On that site, I learned that Yannik Amirault took over running the vineyard in 1977 when he was twenty-two years old. He was the third generation vigneron. Their vineyards are organically certified. The grapes are harvested by hand in small buckets to prevent premature crushing and are harvested later than anyone else in the region so as to achieve maximum ripeness. The grapes are destemmed, and fermentations occur naturally in wood vats with indigenous yeasts.
The 2017 Bourgueil La Coudraye comes from 35-year-old vines growing on a 4.75-hectare vineyard of the same name. Fermentation occurred in open wood vats over four weeks and the wine was aged in old oak for six months. They are then bottled unfined and unfiltered with only a little sulphur added.
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