Domaine Ogereau - Coteaux du Layon - Saint Lambert 2022

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Key words: Richness / Gourmand / Fresh

The wine: This delicious sweet wine made from Chenin comes from a large schist terroir perfectly suited to making sweet wines. Here, the morning mists favor "noble rot" (microscopic fungus Botrytis cinerea), allowing the berries to concentrate in sugars and aromas. This very particular climate, combined with the very precise selection of grapes at the beginning of over-ripeness by the Ogereau family, offers us a vintage of great aromatic richness. This one is gourmet, perfectly balanced and indeed ends in a very digestible finale. Aromas of honey, acacia, peach, apricot and candied mandarin emerge from the glass. Intoxicating!

Capacity: 75cl

Type: Sweet white wine

Residual sugars: 77.6g/L

Grape variety: 100% Chenin

AOC: Coteaux du Layon

Drinking and storing: Drink now and keep until 2042

Service temperature: 8-10°C

The estate: Located in Val-du-Layon near Angers, the domaine Ogereau today reaches 24 hectares and has been certified in Organic Agriculture since 2019. Emmanuel and his parents produce wines of all colors in AOC Anjou, Anjou-Villages, Savennières, Côteaux-du-Layon and Quarts-de-Chaume. Thanks to Vincent Ogereau, the property has built a solid reputation since the 1980s and produces wines where the terroir is expressed in a large precision.  Since 2014, it is Emmanuel (5^th generation) who has continued this work of constant identity research. The harvest is manual, the yeasts are indigenous and the use of sulphites in winemaking is minimal. The terroir is mainly composed of shales, sands as well as volcanic rocks. The range of wines is wide but the minerality, the richness of the fruit and the class of the aging are strong markers of this great domain of Anjou.