Isabelle et Pierre Clement Menetou-Salon 2023 750ml

Pierre Clément has raised the quality of his Menetou-Salon Blanc to new heights. He equipped his winery with the most up to date equipment to ensure gentle handling of the fruit and the full extraction of aromas and flavors. Once picked, the fruit descends to the winery by gravity flow and is selected on a sorting-table. Clément vinifies his Sauvignon Blanc grapes using one-third maceration pelliculaire (maceration with the skins), followed by a gentle pneumatic pressing. The juice rests in tank for 10 days at a very low temperature of 39.2F to stabilize and develop aromas and flavors. It is cleared (débourbage) and the temperature of the tanks is allowed to rise as the alcoholic fermentation begins slowly, using only native yeasts. The young wine is left on its fine lees in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks through the winter and is bottled after a light filtration in April. This is an amazingly vivid white, bursting with pure aromas of citrus, white peach and flowers. On the palate, it has a precise concentration with long-lasting flavors of red grapefruit, apricot, and minerals.