This red wine with a ruby color, limpid and brilliant has a pleasant pinoté nose with notes of violet and spices. The red Sancerre wine is powerful, fruity on the palate with good structure. This wine will appreciate being forgotten in the heart of your cellar for 4 to 5 years before coming out more evolved, open with silky tannins.
The 2018 vintage turns out to be a great vintage with an early harvest and even among the oldest, few remember a harvest that was as qualitative as it was quantitative in the Loire Valley.
VINEYARD - TERROIR
The Eric Louis estate extends over an area of 32 hectares around Thauvenay in the Center Val de Loire region (department 18), on the south-eastern slopes of Sancerre.
The vines are planted on a terroir made up of two thirds of clay-limestone and one third of flint.
The red Sancerre wine is grown on chalky clay soils, the latter having a preference for heavier soils whose red retains a light fragrance.
Sancerre red wine 2018 grape: 100% Pinot Noir
VINIFICATION - AGING
Harvests are carried out at night and early in the morning to get the best out of the grapes and preserve their aromatic potential and freshness. The harvest is destemmed and sorted in order to macerate the most beautiful berries which then leave for a cold pre-fermentation maceration without sulphites for 72 hours (allows to extract the ruby color so typical of Pinot Noir and to optimize the concentration. aromatic).
Fermentation in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats between 18 ° C and 25 ° C for 18 days.
Pigeage and pumping over up to twice a day depending on the vintage to obtain a fleshy and structured product that has retained all its fruit aromas.
Part of the wine is aged in stainless steel vats while the other spends 9 months in oak barrels. The wine undergoes its malolactic fermentation there, allowing it to round out and refine.
SPECIFICATIONS
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Capacity: 75cl
Aging potential of 6 years
Sancerre red wine 2018
GOURMET PAIRINGS
Red Sancerre is frequently used as an accompaniment to game and other meats, cold cuts and is surprisingly good with fish.
Pouilly Fumé white wine 2018 AOP (Domaine Eric Louis)
This red wine with a ruby color, limpid and brilliant has a pleasant pinoté nose with notes of violet and spices. The red Sancerre wine is powerful, fruity on the palate with good structure. This wine will appreciate being forgotten in the heart of your cellar for 4 to 5 years before coming out more evolved, open with silky tannins.
The 2018 vintage turns out to be a great vintage with an early harvest and even among the oldest, few remember a harvest that was as qualitative as it was quantitative in the Loire Valley.
VINEYARD - TERROIR
The Eric Louis estate extends over an area of 32 hectares around Thauvenay in the Center Val de Loire region (department 18), on the south-eastern slopes of Sancerre.
The vines are planted on a terroir made up of two thirds of clay-limestone and one third of flint.
The red Sancerre wine is grown on chalky clay soils, the latter having a preference for heavier soils whose red retains a light fragrance.
Sancerre red wine 2018 grape: 100% Pinot Noir
VINIFICATION - AGING
Harvests are carried out at night and early in the morning to get the best out of the grapes and preserve their aromatic potential and freshness. The harvest is destemmed and sorted in order to macerate the most beautiful berries which then leave for a cold pre-fermentation maceration without sulphites for 72 hours (allows to extract the ruby color so typical of Pinot Noir and to optimize the concentration. aromatic).
Fermentation in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats between 18 ° C and 25 ° C for 18 days.
Pigeage and pumping over up to twice a day depending on the vintage to obtain a fleshy and structured product that has retained all its fruit aromas.
Part of the wine is aged in stainless steel vats while the other spends 9 months in oak barrels. The wine undergoes its malolactic fermentation there, allowing it to round out and refine.
SPECIFICATIONS
Alcohol content: 12.5%
Capacity: 75cl
Aging potential of 6 years
Sancerre red wine 2018
GOURMET PAIRINGS
Red Sancerre is frequently used as an accompaniment to game and other meats, cold cuts and is surprisingly good with fish.