Saumur Blanc Les Moulins 2018 Guiberteau
Saumur Blanc Les Moulins 2018 is a natural wine produced by the Domaine Guibertau. This renowned producer from the Loire Valley produces interesting wines from the Saumur area, based on Cabernet Franc for red wines, and Chenin Blanc for whites. In particular, its white wines based on Chenin grapes are characterized by a great elegance and flavor, as in the case of this Saumur Blanc Les Moulins 2018, obtained from different vineyards of the "Les Moulins" vineyard. Here minerality blends harmoniously with a ripe fruit with exotic notes. Full-bodied and tasty, it has a long and fresh sip, with a nice savory finish. Also perfect to drink in youth.
DENOMINATION: Saumur AOC
REGION: Loire Valley (France)
GRAPES: 100% Chenin Blanc
VINIFICATION: Pressing with whole berries, Fermentation with Spontaneous yeasts, aging in steel until spring, light filtration
Natural Wines: the philosophy behind winemaking
Natural wine does not mean only without the addition of sulphites, it means working according to the ancient winemaking traditions with sulfur and copper in the vineyard, based on the effort of manual labor, the least interventionist activities possible letting the cycles of Nature do most of the work up to vinification of grape juice as it is, without any substances if not its own. The result of all this production philosophy is natural wine, a non-standardized wine that best expresses its identity, its terroir and its most intrinsic characteristics. Natural wines are much more difficult to produce than wines to which we are traditionally accustomed, because when there is no type of help from the use of balancing substances and support for winemaking, wine cannot be a way of putting: or is it good or bad. Natural wine was born as the commitment of the natural artisan winemakers to raise their product to the standardization of the taste and identity of the wine and the vineyard which, thanks to the widespread use of chemistry and new technologies, now leads to products with always the same flavors, regardless of the production area or the type of cultivation used. Biodynamic wine or natural wine, on the other hand, tends to enhance its identity, its essence, diversifying itself thanks to the exclusive organoleptic qualities that the precise terroir of belonging provides to the host grapes and which can only be expressed thanks to activities that do not intervene on the cultivation and winemaking processes.