Vouvray Les Deronnieres
- White
- Chenin Blanc
- Certified Organic
Winemaking Information
Spontaneous fermentation occurs with native yeasts in old wooden vats in the naturally cool cellar carved out of a limestone hillside. It lasts a leisurely two to three months and then stops, because of the cold temperature of the cellar, with some residual sugar in the wine. The wine is then racked and aged on its fine lees for four to five months in a variety of used oak barrels and foudres.
SO2: During winemaking
Fining/Filtration: Light filtration at bottling (non-sterile)
Vineyard Information
Appellation: Vouvray
Soil Composition: Calcareous, Clay, Tuffeau, Limestone
Farming: Organic (certified)
Fun Facts: Deronnières is the newest of Pinon's site specific bottlings and is made from their oldest vines. It was always vinified individually but used to be blended into the Silex Noir. Starting in 2015, was bottled separately to highlight its unique characteristics.
Thanks to importer Louis/Dressner for details above