Château Yvonne Saumur Blanc
Variety
100% Chenin Blanc
Annual Production
8,000 bottles
Vine Age
5 to 80 years
Size
2.5 hectares
Terroir
Clay limestone soils on Turonian Limestone better known as tuffeau
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.
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