ASTRA
ORIGIN OF STAINED GLASS LABEL :
St Vitus cathedral – Prague
COMMENTARY :
Brilliant fruit, with well-ripe red fruits notes, floral and delicate as well as smooth spicy notes. Fluid mouth attack with a structured middle mouth feeling on cherry and plum. Long lasting taste… A full- bodied wine that should age quietly in your cellar for a few well deserved years.
« Gamay is The Beaujolais king’s grape variety but is also well adapted to the Loire hillsides. This is a four-hand made cuvée, cuvée made-out the well named ‘Les Ronces’ plot. This cuvée is made with my friend Ben Landron. So enjoy life, drink wine, drink good Loire Gamay ! As would Rabelais say: “As appetite comes from eating, thirst disappears while drinking”. Fred
FOOD AND WINE PAIRING :
- Roasted calf square
- Poultry with the pin.
- Roasted mitre and shallots.
- Kidneys, liver in chopped parsily.
- Mamie Josette’s beef stew.
- Veal cutlet with the cream.
- Camembert, Brie, Savarin, Cœur de Neufchâtel.
- Or as would Ben say: « with a glass and a cork-screw » !
TASTING :
Ideal serving temperature : 16/17°C.
To be drank between now and the next 5/7 years – at least.
INFORMATION :
VITICULTURE :
36hl/ha
Soil ploughing and scraping,
canopy management
VINIFICATION AND MATURATION :
Organic farming.
Hand-picked harvest.
Harvest transfered by gravity into the vats,
No pump used.
Short vatting : 10 days, entire and none-crushed grapes, without running off the juice. Pneumatic pressing.
Fermentation: 100 % natives yeasts.
Aged in 450 liters Amphoras during 12 months.
Hand-picked harvest.
Harvest transfered by gravity into the vats,
No pump used.
Short vatting : 10 days, entire and none-crushed grapes, without running off the juice. Pneumatic pressing.
Fermentation: 100 % natives yeasts.
Aged in 450 liters Amphoras during 12 months.
PROVENANCE OF THE GRAPES :
Domaine Landron-Chartier.
Loire.