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Monbazillac 2007 Chateau La Rayre - Monbazillac
Monbazillac 2007 Chateau La Rayre - Monbazillac
Bottle Price: £19.50
Case Price: £222.3
- Country: France
- Region: Midi-Pyrenees
- Grape Variety: Sauvignon, Sémillon
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- Bottle Size: 75cl
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95% Semillon and 5% Sauvignon Blanc. Unctous honeyed sweet white for pudding, aperitif and some blue cheese-wonderfully rich wine with a deep golden colour and complex plalate of dried fruit, honey and nuts.
Bronze medal winner Paris 2007.
Chateau La Rayre - Monbazillac, Colombier, Dordogne
The vineyard of Château La Rayre is located on the clay-limestone slopes south of Monbazillac in the community of Colombier combining ideal climatic and geological conditions to produce a great vineyard.
This property, recently acquired by Vincent Vesselle has gained a certain reputation in the Bergerac region as well as in Holland and Belgium.
Eager to continue in the same way and with his experience and know-how, Vincent Vesselle will strive to maintain and improve the quality of the wines of the Château La Rayre.
The vineyard comprises 22 ha of vines, 14 ha of which give a Bergerac Sec with the Sauvignon and Semillon grape varieties and 8 ha give a Bergerac Red with the Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon grape varieties. This combination of grape varieties and the south-facing exposition on clay-limestone soils allows a spirit of freshness to emerge and produces wines that are fragrant, lively, fresh in a highly refined way and full of elegance.
Monbazillac is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for sweet white wine produced in the village of Monbazillac on the left bank of the Dordogne River just across from the town of Bergerac in South West France. The appellation covers almost 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of vineyards.
The AOC of Monbazillac was first established in 1936, but the area has a long history of sweet wine production. Only wine made from grapes grown in Monbazillac that are affected by the "noble rot" (Botrytis cinerea) can be sold under the Monbazillac designation. (Dry white wines from the same area are sold as Bergerac sec.) The grape varieties Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle are used for Monbazillac, and the permitted base yield is 40 hectoliter per hectare, although actual yields are lower for many producers.
Monbazillac wines are broadly similar to Sauternes, but a difference is that Monbazillac often has a significantly higher proportion of Muscadelle in the blend, which can lead to slighly different aromas. While Monbazillac in former times could be a simpler semi-sweet wine, the style in more recent years has been that of a fully botrytised wine, since from 1993 no mechanical harvesting is allowed, and harvesting in several tries is required.
