Cahors "Le Pur Fruit du Causse"

France
Southwest
2023

100% Malbec (aka Auxerrois locally).  The fruit for the entry-level Pur comes from seven different Combel sites totalling 8.5 hectares around their home village of Cournou, which lies on the Causse Calcaire, a limestone plateau in Cahors at 320-350 meters in elevation. Planted on clay-limestone soils, the vines are certified-organic (in conversion to biodynamic farming), average 30 years old and are kept to a modest 40 hl/ha yield. The bunches are hand-harvested and mainly destemmed but with up to 20% directly pressed as whole clusters; the juice ferments at cool temperatures with indigenous yeasts in cement and steel tanks with around two week of maceration. The wine is aged on its lees in cement through the winter and bottled unfiltered in the spring. Sulfur throughout vinification and aging is minimal. 

SKU/Code: 
DB7201-23
Product Line: 
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Malbec
Farming Type: 
Organic

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100% Malbec

Combel La Serre

Cahors "Le Pur Fruit du Causse" 2023

Certified Organic
Malbec
France
Southwest
Cahors
The palate is bright, supple and still very fresh, with blackberry and black raspberry fruit notes, lifted by bright acidity - quite lush and ripe but refreshing and balanced.
Organic