TERRE DE CAILLOTTE – Coteaux du Giennois Blanc
Terre de Caillotte : one place, one soil, one wine…
Displaying a bright yellow colour with green hues, Terre de Caillotte opens with a very elegant and refined nose.
White fruits such as pear and peach nicely complement notes of white flowers such as hawthorn.
On the palate, the wine is straightforward with a nice volume. The maturity of the wine is lined with a superb feminine elegance…
This wine of character is underpinned by freshness and finess.
ServiNG TIPS
Serve it between 10 and 12°C.
Drink it now or wait 2-3 years.
FOOD PAIRING
Terre de Caillotte pairs nicely with salmon appetizers or a perch fillet from the Loire, or can simply be enjoyed as an aperitif.
AOC Coteaux du Giennois
Centre Val de Loire
Terre de Caillotte
PRESENTATION
VINTAGE
2020 shows every sign of being a sun-driven vintage. Having braved the unusual weather conditions, 2018 is a unique, early vintage – a vintage shaped by extraordinary extremes of weather, ranging from record levels of spring rainfall to summer heatwaves. September’s fine weather helped to maintain the quality potential of the harvest.
In conclusion, the 2020 vintage is set to be all about elegance.
Terroir
Terre de Caillotte comes from very specific soils, located in Pougny.
The soil here has a particularity: the abundance of small limestone pebbles, known in the region as “caillottes”; Calcaires of oxfordiens’s Villiers
WINEMAKING
As soon as they arrive in the winery, the harvested grapes are delicately pressed and the juice obtained is allowed to settle for around 36 hours. The alcoholic fermentation starts naturally at a controlled of the temperature (15-18°C).
Situation
Situated between Gien and Cosne-sur-Loire, this vineyard of 191 hectares has a temperate climate thanks to the Loire River, with a continental influence from the east. It’s planted on hillsides of the Loire extensions of the geologic formations of Sancerrois and Pouilly. Coteaux du Giennois is a small and recent appellation, even if one can find archeological evidences of winegrowing in this region since the 2nd century. In full expansion with authentic wines that reveal the originality of their terroir.
VARIETALS
Sauvignon blanc : 100%
aGEING
The wine is then matured for a few months on its fine lees until the bottling is carried out in the spring.
Reviews And Awards
93 POINTS : TERRE DE CAILLOTTE 2020
The 2020 Coteaux du Giennois Terre de Caillotte shows a bit of the precision and coolishness of the 2021 vintage on the dense, intense, iodine-scented and very elegant nose that integrates lemon juice and gravel aromas. […]
17/20 Terre de Caillotte 2017 Coteaux du Giennois Blanc
Clément & Florian Berthier
From soils in Pougny with a particular concentration of small limestone pebbles, known in the region as caillottes.
More muted and somehow ‘drier’ than the Terre de Silex on the nose though still very mouth-filling on the palate. Really very well made indeed. Classic rather than new wave but very pure and expressive. Long and satisfying.
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