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Condrieu: Coteau de Vernon 2008

Condrieu: Coteau de Vernon 2008

This is a hugely complex, contemplative Condrieu that reveals its charms slowly in the glass. Typically a bouquet of dried fruits and toasted nuts precedes a multi-faceted palate with notes of honey, licorice, and stewed orchard fruits underscored by a fine acidity and mineral undertones.

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£59.95
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£719.40

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John Livingstone-Learmonth, drinkrhone.com says:
Level yellow colour; this is good – right away, the bouquet is lovely, elegant, offers soft flan, crème patisserie, a sprinkle of spice: a really classic Condrieu nose, none of the pumped up style. Lissom, very attractive texture and flavour – there is a fine ball of pear, a little apricot, has honeyed moments late on, is really beau. It ends clearly, with shapely gras. It takes me back in time, towards the 1980s vintages, perhaps the 1983. Really lovely wine.

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Style: White Wine, Dry (Sec), Full-bodied
Region: Rhone, Condrieu
Producer: Domaine Georges Vernay
Vintage: 2008
Grape variety (Cépage): Viognier
Wine pairing - drink with: White fish, Smoked Fish
Cellarage: Approachable from bottling finer vintages can age well for a decade or more.
Vinification: The grapes for this wine all hail from the Vernays 1.7 hecatre vine-holdings in Condrieu's most celebrated climat 'Vernon', after which this, their flagship bottling, is named. The wine is vinified in 225-litre casks, up to 25% of which may be new. A heat exchanger is used to ensure the fermentation starts off cool and rises gradually to peak at 17-18°C, coming back to finish at about 14°C. Malolcatic fermentation then follows. The wine spends one year in cask and is filtered prior to a late bottling. Approximately 4,500 bottles are made.
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 13.5%