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Loire Valley

Domaine du Petit Bondieu - Bourgueil - Petit Mont - Red - 2022

Characteristics

Country / Region: Loire Valley

Vintage: 2022

Name: AOP Bourgueil

Grape variety: 100% Cabernet Franc

Alcohol: 14 vol.

Color: Red

Capacity: 75 cl

AWARDS

Favorite Cuvée rated 93/100 by our Committee!

Wine:

The 2022 red Bourgueil Petit Mont offers a marvelous price-enjoyment ratio and stands as one of the Loire Valley's hidden treasures. Its nose reveals highly intense fruit, ripe yet fresh, with a graphite and infused black fruit character. The palate has personality – it's a robust, juicy, and full-bodied Cabernet, with present tannins ensuring it can age gracefully for 5 to 7 years without any issue! A Committee Favorite rated 93/100.

Vinification:

Mechanically harvested, fermented for 3 to 4 weeks and aged in vats for 4 to 5 months before bottling.

Certified organic wine.

Color:

Almost black red with slight carmine highlights, brilliant.

Nose:

Beautifully intense fruit, both ripe and fresh, with graphite and black fruit flavors.

Palate:

This cuvée is full of character, with full-bodied, juicy juices and present tannins that guarantee good cellaring!

Temperature:

Serve between 14 and 16°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Roast beef, rack of lamb or small leg of suckling lamb from the Pyrenees, veal with chanterelles, monkfish with red wine.

Cellar aging:

From now until 2030

What a blessing! Domaine du Petit Bondieu is reviving the glorious days of Bourgueil and Chinon, charting an impeccable course on these terroirs. Based in Restigné, Thomas Pichet, practicing organic viticulture, captures the purest expression of Cabernet Franc.

This estate, driven by a deserving winemaker, excites us yearly with its Bourgueil, a star appellation!