Domaine Xavier et Agnes Amirault St-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil Les Quarterons 2016

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2016

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750ML

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Winemaker Notes

This cheerful wine is appreciated for its carefree, indulgent flavor and delicate freshness. It is packed with a full range of red fruit flavors - the perfect bottle to crack open with friends!

Perfect as an aperitif or with summer meals, picnics, barbecues, and even fish.

Professional Ratings

  • 91
    The Amirault family farms this 92-acre Demetercertified domaine, where they grow this cabernet franc on gravel and sandy soils over clay. Its blueblack fruit and rich, earthy tannins carry accents of cured meat and dried herbs. Tight and firm, this is a wine to decant to any grilled meats this summer.”

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Domaine Xavier et Agnes Amirault
Domaine Xavier et Agnes Amirault, France
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Located in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil in the Loire Valley, Domaine Amirault's Clos des Quarterons is a 92-acre vineyard that is farmed according to the precepts of biodynamic viticulture. The domaine has been in the Amirault family for six generations and is currently managed by Xavier Amirault and his wife, Agnès. The estate is 100% certified organic by Ecocert and certified biodynamic by Demeter. The biodynamic methods focus on both the environment and the terroir: soil, place, climate, varietal, and the methods of farming. The goal is to achieve a natural balance across the 53 plots of mostly Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc planted at the estate. This is the domaine's secret to offering unique and living wines, vintage after vintage.
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Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.

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Chinon Wine

Touraine, France

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An important red wine appellation in the Touraine district of the Loire, Chinon produces fanciful, light-bodied reds from the Cabernet Franc grape. Chinon also makes charming rosés from the same grape as well as white wines from Chenin blanc. But the reds give the area its fame. Often scented with fresh herbs, black tea and violets, Chinon reds show a lovely combination of fruit and acidity. However, styles have become more concentrated and ripe in recent years from improvements in vineyard management. Modern methods include planting grass between vineyard rows, using higher trellises and deleafing to increase sunlight to berries and therefore improve ripening. Even still, red Chinon is intended to be a light to medium bodied, refreshing wine to be enjoyed in its youth.

Fuller-bodied Chinons come from vineyard sites on the clay and tuffeau limestone slopes, usually from the southern exposed slopes of Cravant-les-Coteaux, and the plateau above Beaumont. Lighter styled wines come from the sand and gravel vineyards near the Loire or Vienne Rivers with the most refined examples coming from the area around Panzoult

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