La Griffe d'Isa 2018 - Xavier Frissant, Touraine

Food and wine pairing

A complex wine with a pleasant long finish, smooth and fat
Food matching: fish in sauce with a bit of spice or with poultry en cocotte recipes

Serve at 10 - 12°C, you can decanter this wine

Conservation: 3 to 7 years

Terroir: 
« Clos du Verger » wine plot
clay silicate limestone plateau

Vineyard operation :
Reasoned vine-growing with natural grassing (ray grass and meadow fescue).
Mechanical soil cultivation with plowing the cavaillon (patch of earth between two vines). Leaf thinning and green harvesting allow maturation and yield control

Harvest, vinification, and breeding :
Second manual grape harvest, to have a perfect maturity Then they are slowly pressed pneumatically
Alcoholic fermentation is then done in 300 l barrels with no yeast addition at low temperatures. Raised on lees in foudre barrels.
Bottled during March of the following year

Isabelle et Xavier Frissant

Domaine de 28ha, planté sur des sols argilo-siliceux dit Perruches, sur des coteaux dominant la Loire. Le respect du terroir passe par une culture raisonnée, travail du sol, enherbement naturel.