Domaine Adrien Berlioz – Albinum Vintage 2019

GRAPE VARIETY

Roussanne 100%

VINIFICATION

Manual harvesting, transport of the grapes in crates. Direct pressing sheltered from the air. Gravity descent to the vat. Static settling. Spontaneous fermentation by indigenous yeasts.

AGEING

Ageing in vats

TASTING NOTE

Deep colour with a golden hue and green and pearly reflections. The nose is touched by an empyreumatic scent on the approach and awakens the heady power of a delicious expression where the candied and honeyed richness of the fruit responds to the intense brilliance of the floral and spicy notes: gunflint, iris, dried apricot and candied orange, cardamom and fenugreek.

ALCOHOL CONTENT

13%

ABOUT PRODUCER

Domaine Adrien Berlioz (formerly Cellier des Cray) started in 2006 with 1.5 hectares of vines owned by Adrien's father, Joseph. After land purchases and a few years of work, the garden is 8 hectares in 2020. There are 17 parcel wines with the grape varieties Jacquère, Altesse, Malvoisie, Bergeron for the whites and Mondeuse noire, Persan and Douce Noire for the reds.Marne, moraine, scree, silt and schist deserve an expression by cuvée according to the altitude, the exposure, the soil/subsoil, the winds...