2012 Sauvignon Fumé Blanc, Vin de Pays d'Oc, Francois Lurton

2012 Sauvignon Fumé Blanc, Vin de Pays d'Oc, Francois Lurton

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2012 Sauvignon Fumé Blanc, Vin de Pays d'Oc, Francois Lurton

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A combination of different terroirs and consequently different aromas, each one carefully selected: the special smell of citrus fruits, tropical notes, minerality … enabling this delicate variety to illustrate its rather complex nature. Elegant palate, with a fine balance between a smooth attack, with citrus and fresh fruit aromas, and a fresh finish, typical for the vintage, with notes of grapefruit, giving the wine excellent length.

The heart of “Les Fumées Blanches” comes from the cool region of the Gers, 150km south of Bordeaux, sandwiched in between the Atlantic and the Pyrenees mountains to its south. It is an ideal region for Sauvignon production. Its cool oceanic climate and its clay limestone soils produces a Sauvignon wine that is green and grassy with notes of blackcurrant bud and citrus particularly grapefruit. It is the thiol molecule of Sauvignon that gives these characteristic aromas of box and broom. 

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J. & F. Lurton

J. & F. Lurton

Jacques & François Lurton started producing wine in Argentina in 1992 and now have extensive holding in the Mendoza region, which is where 90% of quality wine is produced. Mendoza is situated on a plateau in the foothills of the Andes and ranges in altitude from around 450 metres to 1200 metres above sea level. Chardonnay grapes are grown at the higher altitudes, as the temperature is cooler which consequently lengthens the ripening process.

The Lurton brothers now produce wine from all over the world and Santa Celina is one of their most successful ventures, with winemaker Olivier Ruhard producing a range of distinctive high-quality wines.

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Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves.

It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.

In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today many producers are rivalling Cloudy Bay in terms of quality and Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand`s trademark grape.

It is now grown very successfully in Chile producing wines that are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character. After several false starts, many South African producers are now producing very good quality, rounded fruit-driven Sauvignon Blancs.

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