Les Petites Roches 2019
Les Petites Roches 2019
○ Red Wine - PDO Chinon
○ Organic Agriculture
○ Cabernet Franc - 13% vol.
○ Data Sheet
More structured and finer, one should ideally wait for one year after bottling. It reaches its peak between 3 and 5 years.
The great classic of Chinon with rillettes, rillons, poultry or fresh goat's cheese.
2017 - Wine Spectator, Sept.2019: 91/100 "Harmonious and focused, delivering a seductive core of crushed strawberry, rose hip and raspberry flavors. Very pure, with an alluring mineral hint in the background, emerging with spice on the long finish. Best from 2020 through 2028.
"Wine Enthusiast 2019: "This soft fruity wine comes from a selection of different parcels. It offers gentle tannins and plenty of intense, perfumed fruit. Still young, it has fresh acidity that is still very present. The wine needs to fill out, so drink from 2020.
"Guide RVF 2020 : "(...)In red, Silènes and Petites Roches are simple and pleasantly fruity wines".
Le Figaro, 2019: "A vibrant vintage, with notes of red berries and a hint of herbs. On the palate, lots of freshness and dynamism and spicy notes on pepper that add to its complexity."
Vines
This cuvée is the result of a blend of different plots of land located on the left bank of the Vienne river, all with the same soil profile.
The cuvée Les Petites Roches, with its predominantly clayey and moderately chalky slopes and plateaus, offers wines with red fruit aromas and a nice mineral structure, to be enjoyed within five years of the vintage.
Average yield: 45hl/ha
Vinification
This cuvée actually corresponds to our old Jeunes Vignes cuvée, renamed to evoke the gravelly soils of the Vienne valley and their calcareous mother rock and to take into account the ageing and ripening of these vines.
Here, the vinification method is similar to that of the Cuvée Terroir but the selected vines give us greater density and complexity. We use free-run wine (natural flow of the juice after alcoholic fermentation), which gives this cuvée more purity and finesse. The press wine (passage of the marc in the press) is blended with the Cuvée Terroir. Only high quality press wines may, exceptionally, be included in the blend of this cuvée.
All these qualities give the cuvée Les Petites Roches an ageing potential of a few years.
Press review
Le Figaro 2019
"A vibrant wine, with red berry notes and a hint of herbs. On the palate, lots of freshness and dynamism and spicy notes of pepper that add to its complexity."
Wine Advocate - Robert Parker 2021
Les Petites Roches 2018 91/100
"The wine opens spicy and fresh, with floral-scented red fruit aromas. Silky, fresh and very elegant on the palate, with a silky texture and perfectly ripe and finely tannic fruit, this is a concentrated and quite intense medium to full-bodied red with a nice, persistent mineral structure and tart fruit on the finish." Stephan Reinhardt
Wine Spectator 2019
Les Petites Roches 2017 91/100
"Harmonious and focused, delivering a seductive core of crushed strawberry, rose hip and raspberry flavors. Very pure, with an alluring mineral hint in the background, emerging with spice on the long finish. Best from 2020 through 2028.
Wine Enthusiast 2019
Les Petites Roches 2017
"Wine Enthusiast 2019: "This soft fruity wine comes from a selection of different parcels. It offers gentle tannins and plenty of intense, perfumed fruit. Still young, it has fresh acidity that is still very present. The wine needs to fill out, so drink from 2020."