This cuvée is crafted with particular care, aged for 24 months on lees in vats and oak barrels. It delivers an elegant and complex nose blending citrus fruits, white flowers, dried fruits, and toasted notes. The palate is rich and opulent, counterbalanced by lively mineral acidity. Notes of orchard fruit, rhubarb, and licorice enhance its long finish. A rare cuvée that showcases the Melon de Bourgogne grape variety!
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Eye
Soft wheat color
Nose
Elegant with pronounced mineral notes, citrus notes (lemon and grapefruit), delicate notes of white flowers, dried fruit, almond, and toasted notes.
Mouth
Rich and opulent, balanced and slender with a delicate acidity. Beautiful complexity blending notes of orchard fruits, pear, apricot, rhubarb, and licorice. Long finish with white pepper.
Serve
Decant at 11-12°C
Open
At least 2 hours before
Drink from
2020
Drink before
2028
Food and wine pairings
Enjoy with langoustine tartare, scallop carpaccio, asparagus with mousseline sauce, sweetbreads, shrimp risotto with aged Parmesan, or cheeses: Pont Lévêque, Livarot, Maroilles, Epoisses, Mont-d’Or.
Bettane & Desseauve
3-star rating (High-quality production, serving as a benchmark in its sector)
About the estate:
Frédéric Niger Van Herck, driven by a passion for wine, continues to pursue biodynamic farming on his 21 hectares. He brilliantly vinifies terroir wines, named after the type of soil on which they are produced. Whether expression-de-gneiss, expression-d'orthogneiss or expression-de-granite, these wines perfectly express the natural character and elegant minerality of their terroir. The great wines absolutely must be aged in the cellar. The reds are more reserved.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
Rated estate (2024 guide) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Robert Parker - The Wine Advocate)
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Rated estate (2026 guide) 1*Star (Up-and-coming stars or quality winemakers producing good-quality wines; you won't be disappointed when tasting the wines from these estates)
About the estate:
Frédéric Niger arrived at the estate in 2009 and benefited from the invaluable knowledge of the iconic winemaker Guy Bossard, the former owner, until 2013. Since then, Frédéric has continued the organic (since 1975) and biodynamic (certified in 1998) cultivation of the vines and is committed to winemaking that is as natural as possible. The brightness of the fruit and the sincere aromatic openness of his unpretentious wines are evident. Beyond the delightful Classic, Granite, Orthogneiss, and Taurus Muscadets, the daring winemaker experiments with twenty-eight cuvées aged in amphorae and/or large oak casks and concrete vats. These wines, full of vitality, take us out of our comfort zone. Following a problem with the Muscadet appellation approval, the wines are now classified as Vin de France.
Wine Enthusiast
Rated Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Wine Enthusiast)
Customer rating
4/5
based on 1 review
Note and opinion by Mr. LAURENT P. Published on March 21, 2020
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