Alcohol: 13,5%
Grape(s): Gamay
Localisation: Côtes du Forez, Loire Valley, France
Tasting Notes: The color is translucent garnet. The nose is reminiscent of freshly baked plum pie sprinkled with Christmas spices. The mouth is slender, rectilinear, stretched by an invisible thread, with a material slightly denser than "Gourmets" - a tannic grain a little thicker - but nevertheless fine, fresh and easy to digest. 'a light smoke (the volcanic soil?). The finish is more earthy, with a fine, tasty, slightly chalky mash and humus notes. To end on pepper and blood / iron notes.
The AOC Côtes du Forez is a very small appellation located between Boën sur Lignon and Montbrison en Loire (42) which is starting to be talked about. Odile Verdier and Jacky Logel produce in our opinion the best of them with this cuvée resulting from an original entirely basaltic soil (volcanic soil poor in silica but rich in iron and magnesium).
The Domain:The Logel's aren't your typical vignerons - Jacky was a joiner and carpenter, and Odile was a dietician. But when Odile's father retired they decided to go to live in the Cotes du Forez near Clermont Ferrand in the massif central and take over her grandfathers estate. Jacky studied viticulture and wine-making in Mâcon and their first vintage was in 1992. The Domaine is planted with Gamay, Viognier and Pinot Gris - a nod to Jacky's home Alsace.
They have always worked organically and made the wines with low intervention, to truthfully express their distinctive terroirs. They are making delicious expressions of Gamay from the southernmost extremity of the department of the Loire. It's a slightly forgotten wine region, between 400 and 600 metres above sea level in an unspoilt environment. They make 3 expressions of Gamay all with tension, energy, freshness, but also full body and rich flavour.
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