Château Yvonne Saumur Blanc 2020

Château Yvonne Saumur Blanc 2020

VINEYARD NAME
8 parcels scattered over “La Côte”: ‘Château Gaillard’, ‘Le Clos Coin’, ‘Les Devants’, ‘Le Bourreau’, ‘La Folie’ and ‘Les Pierres Blanches’

SOIL TYPE
Clay-limestone soils over tuffeau stones

VINES PLANTED IN
From 1940s to 2010s

VINEYARD SIZE
3 ha

VINIFICATION
Hand-harvested in small bins. 3 hours of pressing, then settling for 1-2 days in tank. Fermentation on the lees in 225L barrels with native yeasts.

ELEVAGE
12 months in barrels (20% new), then assembled for 3 months in steel tanks “en masse” before bottling. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, on a fruit day during the Ascendant Moon. Aged for one year in bottle at the domaine before release

HARVEST TYPE
Hand Harvested

FINING/FILTERING
Unfined and unfiltered

TOTAL PRODUCTION AVERAGE
8,000 bottles