2012 Ch. Guirauton Graves Blanc

2012 Ch. Guirauton Graves Blanc

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2012 Ch. Guirauton Graves Blanc

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Description

Clean and bright, with a pale lemon colour. The nose is gently aromatic and shows notes of lemon zest, elderflower and peaches. The palate is clean as whistle – zesty, vibrant and refreshing. A touch of weight on the mid-palate, just fills the wine out nicely.

65% Sauvignon Blanc, 35% Semillon

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Chateau Guirauton

Chateau Guirauton

Guirauton is a tiny Château, just to the south west of Bordeaux. It has been owned by the famous winemaking family of Dubourdieu since the 1980s. There are only seven hectares under vine and six of those are white varietals. There is no oak used so the floral aromatics really shine through and are not overshadowed by wood.

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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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