Château Yvonne
"L'île Quatre Sous" Saumur Champigny Cabernet Franc
Saumur-Champigny, Anjou-Saumur, Loire Valley, France
Initial: Barnyard and vanilla on the nose; medium acid on palate; the usual dark fruit (cassis, blackberry, stewed plum) with some good vegetal undertones. Nice low-to-medium tannins. After sitting corked for a 2 days: much less vanilla and much much more green olive and green bell pepper savory notes that I associate with Saumur. Great wine.
Initial: Barnyard and vanilla on the nose; medium acid on palate; the usual dark fruit (cassis, blackberry, stewed plum) with some good vegetal undertones. Nice low-to-medium tannins. After sitting corked for a 2 days: much less vanilla and much much more green olive and green bell pepper savory notes that I associate with Saumur. Great wine.
May 28th, 2021
Château Yvonne, ‘L’île Quatre Sous,’ is 100% Cabernet Franc from Saumur Champigny AOC in the Saumur region of Loire Valley, France. The Vintage 2018. The ABV is 14.5%. 🏰 🍷
👁 This wine is deep ruby with medium intensity of youthful aromas. 👃 The aromas offer blackberry bramble, plum, black cherry, and fresh fig, also, green bell pepper and vegetal notes along with fennel, wet earth, forest floor, cured meat, leather, and Brett.
👄 It is dry, has medium acidity, a medium body, high alcohol, and medium tannins. The flavors are consistent with the nose and the finish is medium.
👏 This wine is savory and rustic – it has a sauvage (wild) quality and fresh black fruit notes to balance all of that organic, earthiness. It is multi-faceted and delicious. 😍
In addition to using organic and biodynamic growing practices, Winemaker Mathieu Vallée pursues a minimalist vinification approach, designed to highlight the grape’s innate quality, purity, and expression.
For example, after being hand-harvested, this wine was fermented with native yeast in concrete vats and is un-fined and unfiltered with no additions besides minimal sulfur dioxide. Despite its youth, there is notable sediment in the bottle.
Château Yvonne, ‘L’île Quatre Sous,’ is 100% Cabernet Franc from Saumur Champigny AOC in the Saumur region of Loire Valley, France. The Vintage 2018. The ABV is 14.5%. 🏰 🍷
👁 This wine is deep ruby with medium intensity of youthful aromas. 👃 The aromas offer blackberry bramble, plum, black cherry, and fresh fig, also, green bell pepper and vegetal notes along with fennel, wet earth, forest floor, cured meat, leather, and Brett.
👄 It is dry, has medium acidity, a medium body, high alcohol, and medium tannins. The flavors are consistent with the nose and the finish is medium.
👏 This wine is savory and rustic – it has a sauvage (wild) quality and fresh black fruit notes to balance all of that organic, earthiness. It is multi-faceted and delicious. 😍
In addition to using organic and biodynamic growing practices, Winemaker Mathieu Vallée pursues a minimalist vinification approach, designed to highlight the grape’s innate quality, purity, and expression.
For example, after being hand-harvested, this wine was fermented with native yeast in concrete vats and is un-fined and unfiltered with no additions besides minimal sulfur dioxide. Despite its youth, there is notable sediment in the bottle.
If this Cabernet Franc were a person, he would be your salt-of-the-earth uncle who works all day in his barn and then comes over for dinner in a tweed jacket and rustic plaid bow tie. The wine pours a dark purple colour and lands heavy in the glass. We decanted for 2 hours and the nose opens slowly, first with a hint of violets and damp forest floor and then more expressively with bramble berries and the faint scent of eucalyptus. The palate is assertive with juicy black berry, and Saskatoon berry and as it finishes we experienced notes of raisin, cacao and pencil lead - we paired it with pan seared chops done in a garlic, sage and Masala glaze set a top a warm Braeburn apple and radicchio salad.
If this Cabernet Franc were a person, he would be your salt-of-the-earth uncle who works all day in his barn and then comes over for dinner in a tweed jacket and rustic plaid bow tie. The wine pours a dark purple colour and lands heavy in the glass. We decanted for 2 hours and the nose opens slowly, first with a hint of violets and damp forest floor and then more expressively with bramble berries and the faint scent of eucalyptus. The palate is assertive with juicy black berry, and Saskatoon berry and as it finishes we experienced notes of raisin, cacao and pencil lead - we paired it with pan seared chops done in a garlic, sage and Masala glaze set a top a warm Braeburn apple and radicchio salad.
Mar 22nd, 2021Great value cab franc from MS. Get more!
Great value cab franc from MS. Get more!
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