Domaine Louis Magnin Roussette de Savoie 2011

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Domaine Louis Magnin Roussette de Savoie 2011The second white of the domaine, the Roussette is produced from the Altesse grape. Unlike its companion white, the Chignin Bergeron, twenty percent of the Roussette is raised in small to medium sized barrels. The vines are in two separate sites, the principal one of which is known as Les Rochettes. The total acreage devoted to the Roussette is seven tenths of an hectare. Annual production levels can vary dramatically, yielding anywhere from 25

middle or end of a meal

The flagship of the estate

wide-aspect-ratio fruit one expects from this fabled site

Aged for two years in a single decades-old small foudre

and the finished wine displays bristling minerality unaccented by oxidative elements

this ferments with 20% whole clusters and spends 18 months in a combination of barriques and demi-muids

18-hectare sliver in high-altitude Corbery

The fermentation occurs in stainless steel but after malolactic

Of the three grand crus issuing forth from the Ligniers’ cellar

and beautiful roundness playing off the bubbles

and there is a slightly bitter stone-fruit note and a lively

8 hectares of Grenache