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Jurancon Les Jardins de Babylone Sec 2014 Didier Dagueneau
Jurancon Les Jardins de Babylone Sec 2014 is a fine dry wine from the Loire region produced by Didier Dagueneau. A gorgeous and very rare dry wine from southwest France. Unlike the moelleux, this wine is made from all five of the white grape varieties allowed in Jurançon: Petit Manseng and Gros Manseng, as well as the strictly local (and rarely grown) Courbu, Lauzet and Camarelet vines. The rarest of these Jurançon varieties, Camarelet, dominates the blend. The winemaking mirrors that of Blanc Fumé de Pouilly in that Dagueneau and Pautrat use both stainless steel and "cigar" barrels for maturation before putting together the final blend. The wine is stunning: complex, enigmatic and utterly unconventional, with transparency, precision and freshness, but also with a tender core of pulpy fruit and a firm, mineral finish. A quality we simply didn't know was possible at Jurançon.
DENOMINATION: Jurancon AOC
REGION: Loire Valley (France)
GRAPE VARIETIES: Petit Manseng and Gros Manseng, Courbu, Lauzet and Camarelet
VINIFICATION: aging in steel tanks and wooden barrels
