Coteaux du Layon Rablay: Chateau la Tomaze 2009
Description
A pale golden taffeta textured wine with a delightful rose petal bouquet. The charming orchard fruit flavours with underlying honeyed notes and a light, fresh acidity give incredible finesse.
- Style: White Wine, Sweet (Moelleux), Light-bodied
- Region: Loire, Coteaux du Layon,
- Producer: Vincent Lecointre
- Vintage: 2009
- Grape variety (Cépage): Chenin Blanc
- Wine pairing - drink with: Blue Cheese, Fruit desserts
- Cellarage: Ready to drink from bottling, this wine ages fantastically well in the medium and long term, especially in superior vintages when it will keep for decades.
- Vinification: Low yields (25 hl/ha) of botrytised (80%), triage (successive vine combing) harvested grapes undergo a delicate 5 hour pressing before being fermented and matured in large, used oak barrels for 12 months prior to a light filtration and bottling.
- Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 12.5%
- Full Tasting Notes (PDF): Download
Coteaux du Layon Rablay: Château la Tomaze 2009
The Château la Tomaze 'Rablay' hails from premium vine-holdings at Rablay-sur-Layon, 16 kilometres south of Angers, where a soil of sand and gravel imparts a distinct finesse of the triage harvested, botrytised grapes.
This superb sweet wine is richer, more complex and age-worthy than Vincent's straight Coteaux du Layon and, although approachable from bottling, it will mature happily for a decade or longer.