2010 St Péray, Potiers, Domaine Yves Cuilleron

2010 St Péray, Potiers, Domaine Yves Cuilleron

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2010 St Péray, Potiers, Domaine Yves Cuilleron

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A candidate for one of the finest St Péray wines of the 2010 vintage, Cuilleron’s Potiers cuvee is a blockbuster wine with staurated golden colour and a big, sweet nose of peaches, apricots, white flowers. Full-bodied, with super purity, fabulous intensity, minerality, and richness, this is a stunner. The wine has also benefited from 6 months of lees ageing; the resulting rich colour and nutty complexity makes it a fine accompaniment to dishes such as Coquilles St Jacques. 

St Peray is still somewhat under-appreciated in the UK: its following in France is impressive however, especially in the Rhône Valley its-self….usually a good pointer to the reputation of a particular appellation. Located to the south of Cornas, and up to a point sheltered from the ravages of the Mistral, St Peray is well-known for its sparkling wines and, increasingly, for rewarding expressions of the Marsanne grape. 

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Marsanne

Marsanne

Marsanne is the predominant white grape variety grown in the Northern Rhône where it is used to produce white St. Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage, and Hermitage. It is a tricky grape to cultivate, being susceptible to diseases and being particularly sensitive to extreme climatic changes - if growing conditions are too cool, then it fails to ripen fully and produces thin, insipid wines, while, if too hot, the resultant wines are blowsy, overblown and out of balance.

In the Northern Rhône it tends to be blended with around 15% Rousanne and produces richly aromatic, nutty wines which age marvellously - the best examples are from Hermitage and particularly from Chapoutier. Increasingly it is being grown in the Southern Rhône and Languedoc Roussillon where it is bottled as a single varietal or blended with Roussanne, Viognier, and sometimes Chardonnay. It is also grown very successfully in Victoria in Australia where some of the world`s oldest Marsanne vines are to be found.

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