SAINT-JOSEPH CAVANOS 2018 (Yves CUILLERON)

DESCRIPTION

The Cavanos cuvée is made from a blend of Syrah plots located in the commune of Chavanay. Formerly called Amarybelle, this wine now bears the village's name from which the grapes are coming from, "Cavanos", which stands for Chavanay in old gaulish.

TERROIR

The plots which contribute to the Cavanos cuvée production are located on a granite with muscovites soil, a crystalline rock which was probably formed by remelting a preexisting granite itself crystallized by a magma cooling between -360 and -295 million years.

This terroir, located at the extreme north of the designation, produces very delicate Saint-Joseph wines.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

Each parcel is vinified separately, they will be blend at the time of bottling.

The grapes are harvested manually, sorted, then crushed and partially destemmed. The alcoholic fermentation takes place in open stainless steel vats, the marc cap is regularly immersed in the juice by punching down operations (piston pushing the cap down at the tank ) or by pumping over (operation which consists in pumping the juice at the tank bottom to pour it over the marc cap).
The maceration lasts about 3 weeks, then the must is racked and poured into oak barrels to carry out its malolactic fermentation and an ageing phase for 16 months.

Cavanos is a wine of great elegance and sweetness that can be drunk now but offers a cellar potential of ten years. The bottle is sealed with a DIAM10® cork stopper which guarantees the absence of TCA contamination of the wine (or cork taste)