Winery Bon ReposCoteaux du Layon Blanc
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The Coteaux du Layon Blanc of the Winery Bon Repos is in the top 0 of wines of Côteaux du Layon.
Details and technical informations about Winery Bon Repos's Coteaux du Layon Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling Italico
Lively, aromatic whites for early drinking, with a pale golden hue, light palate and fresh aromas of citrus (lemon), white flowers, white-fleshed fruits (green apple) and herbal notes. Also produced as sparkling (Spumante) and botrytised sweet wines. A pillar of dry Italian whites from Friuli, Veneto and Lombardy. The Italian synonym for Welschriesling, a Central European white grape with no genetic link to German Riesling.
Informations about the Winery Bon Repos
The Winery Bon Repos is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 10 wines for sale in the of Côteaux du Layon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Côteaux du Layon
Loire cradle of Anjou's great sweet wines (left bank of the Layon): signature Chenin Blanc as exclusive white king — off-dry to botrytised sweet with notes of quince, apricot, candied pineapple, mango, honey, beeswax, dried fruits and a saffron touch, chiselled acidity balancing the sugar, exceptional ageing (20-50 years). "Sélection de Grains Nobles" mention at the summit. AOC (1950), ~1,400 ha across 27 villages, slaty schists, Layon mists favouring Botrytis cinerea.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Destemming
Action consisting in separating the grapes from the stalk before vinification. The stalk, the woody part of the bunch, may give the wine an unpleasant vegetal character.
