Owners:
SCEA du Gagnoulat, 46250 GOUJOUNAC, FRANCE
Advisors: Stéphane Derenoncourt and Lydia et Claude Bourguignon
Terroir:
Jurassic clay and limestone chaulk facing south at 10 to 20% of slope.
Grapes varieties:
Chardonnay
Density:
8333 /ha
Yield:
35 hl/ha
Wineyard work:
The wineyard work between vines without herbicide with our own compost and organic products.
Handpicking and grape selection at best maturity.
Wine making:
Maceration and fermentation 3-4 weeks malolactic and maturing 8 months on lee
100 % chardonnay.
This wine, nervous and fresh with a generous volume also presents good woody and fat characteristics. tight, with remarkably pure minerality texture in the mouth and a complex and exceptionally persistant finish. Dolmen is a complete wine of a true noblesse, reflecting the manificent clay/limestone terroir of the Belmont Estate.
100 % chardonnay.
Elaborated solety from the chardonnay grape variety, on a limestone plot of land, the Montaigne is intense, fine and precise.
Subtle floral notes of white flowers and citrus fruits give way of a great and persistant minerality.