Vignoble PinLouis de Rochepin Alliance
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Vignoble Pin's Louis de Rochepin Alliance.
Discover the grape variety: Esther
Table grape with long clusters and golden berries with thin skin and crunchy flesh, a neutral sweet flavour. Early-ripening and productive. Very rarely vinified. Grown in North America for fresh local consumption, appreciated for its attractive appearance and good shelf life. Marginal outside its region of origin. American white table grape variety obtained by crossing for fresh consumption.
Informations about the Vignoble Pin
The Vignoble Pin is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 27 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: Pressing
Mechanical action consisting of pressing the grapes (before fermentation for whites) or the marc soaked in wine (after fermentation for reds).
