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A Vouvray from chalky terroir, this white wine from Loire Valley (France) has aromas of exotic tropical fruits like pineapples and has a fresh and pronounced minerality. A wonderfully aromatic wine with exotic tropical fruit scents. Try with seafood ravioli, scallops or even your local smoked milkfish (bangus). Available for deliveries within Metro Manila.
Grape Variety / Blend: chenin blanc
Winery / Estate: Domaine Champalou
A Vouvray from chalky terroir, this white wine from Loire Valley (France) has aromas of exotic tropical fruits like pineapples and has a fresh and pronounced minerality. A wonderfully aromatic wine with exotic tropical fruit scents. Try with seafood ravioli, scallops or even your local smoked milkfish (bangus).
| Product-Type: | Wine |
| Type: | white |
| Price Point: | 2,001 and above |
| Style: | Rich & Ripe |
| Vintage: | 2012 2018 2019 |
| Blend/Grape Variety: | chenin blanc |
| Volume: | 750 ml |
| Alcohol: | 13.50% |
| Country: | France |
| Region: | Loire Valley |
| Estate: | Domaine Champalou |
| Appellation: | AOC Vouvray |
| Fermentation: | Natural |
| Wine-Making Process: | Sustainable |
| FOOD PAIRING: SHELLFISH & OTHER CRUSTACEANS: | Seared |
| FOOD PAIRING: FISH: | Baked Grilled |
| FOOD PAIRING: OTHER CUISINES OF THE WORLD: | Chinese |
Winery
Catherine and Didier Champalou both came from vigneron families, yet their mutual sense of independence prompted the couple to brave it on their own right after completing viticultural school in Saumur.Vouvray is home to the noble Chenin Blanc, more commonly known as Pineau de la Loire in their part of the world.
The Champalou family farms twenty-one hectares of vineyards on clay, limestone, and siliceous soils. They embrace sustainable farming while also integrating the use of the lunar calendar more traditionally associated with organic viticulture. The soils in their vineyards are rich, deep, and aerated though regular plowing. Cover crops are planted in between vineyard rows to help with excess water absorption and to encourage microbiotic activity in the soil. The Champalou house style produces wines of great elegance and tenderness, highly aromatic with impeccable balance.