Winery Manoir La ChapelleLe Clos Gentil Côteaux du Layon
Red wine
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Details and technical informations about Winery Manoir La Chapelle's Le Clos Gentil Côteaux du Layon.
Discover the grape variety: Subéreux
Simple, lively dry whites with a pale golden robe, an airy palate with preserved acidity. Understated aromas of citrus and white flowers. Disease-resistant. Now marginal, surviving in a few heritage French plots; one of the older hybrids preserved in varietal collections and a parent of Seyval Blanc. A French white hybrid obtained by Albert Seibel (Seibel 4938) in the early twentieth century.
Informations about the Winery Manoir La Chapelle
The Winery Manoir La Chapelle is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 1 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: Crémant
AOC sparkling wine made by traditional method, with specific constraints in the regions of Alsace, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Die, Jura, Limoux and the Loire Valley, as well as in Luxembourg.
