2001 Chateau LAULERIE Montravel-Bergerac
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:56 pm
Tasting Note No.40
I found this interesting. This is the closest tasting French wine for me to the Mount Pleasant 'Elizabeth'. It's a 50% Semillon and 50% Sauvignon Blanc blend from the Montravel region (Est.1937) in Bergerac. This wine is completely unwooded, it was skin macerated and it spent 8 months in stainless steel vats. Grapes wre picked from 20 year old vines planted near the Dordogne River on 73 hectares. Winemaker Serge Dubard.
Colour bright clear with some green & gold. Fragrant, floral nose with grapefruit and pear. Exciting, silky and smooth palate with flavours of grass fresh with dew. Quite full bodied and mouthfilling with excellent balance. Completely dry and slightly mineral and steely. Drinking very well now, will keep until 2008. An excellent style with seafood or even on it's own. I had the feeling that even a greater wine could have been created from this excellent harvest but the winemaker had something else in mind and things may have been simplified accordingly. I thought it was a very good buy at AU $23 though. Definitely exciting and a joy to drink. Delicious.
Tasted:March 2004
I found this interesting. This is the closest tasting French wine for me to the Mount Pleasant 'Elizabeth'. It's a 50% Semillon and 50% Sauvignon Blanc blend from the Montravel region (Est.1937) in Bergerac. This wine is completely unwooded, it was skin macerated and it spent 8 months in stainless steel vats. Grapes wre picked from 20 year old vines planted near the Dordogne River on 73 hectares. Winemaker Serge Dubard.
Colour bright clear with some green & gold. Fragrant, floral nose with grapefruit and pear. Exciting, silky and smooth palate with flavours of grass fresh with dew. Quite full bodied and mouthfilling with excellent balance. Completely dry and slightly mineral and steely. Drinking very well now, will keep until 2008. An excellent style with seafood or even on it's own. I had the feeling that even a greater wine could have been created from this excellent harvest but the winemaker had something else in mind and things may have been simplified accordingly. I thought it was a very good buy at AU $23 though. Definitely exciting and a joy to drink. Delicious.
Tasted:March 2004