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Chateau d’Exindre la Magdelaine
Vent d’Anges 2007

AOC Muscat de Mireval

Bright pale gold in colour, this wine has a complex nose of orange, Seville orange, grapefruit, acacia, honeysuckle, and blossom. Its flavours are even more complex and rich with orange, clementine, mandarin, honey, honeysuckle, acacia and orange water some of the flavours noted. The wine is very well balanced and the flavours stay in the mouth for a long time developing with time. The sweetness is clean and satisfying. This is one of the best fortified sweet Muscats around.

Maturity: At peak, drink over next two years

Food: Lovely as an aperitif, or try with salty blue cheese like Rochefort, or medium sweet puddings like panacotta or clafoutis.

Alcohol: 16.5% abv or 12.5 units per bottle.

Sweetness: sweet - 121g per litre of residual sugar

Varieties: 100% Muscat a Petits Grains

Terroir: South facing slopes of the Gardiole Massif, low rainfall, complex soils including red clays and limestone with many stones and pebbles.

Yields: 27 hl/ha

Vinification:

Grapes hand picked at end of September
Pressed with short skin contact
Cold fermented at 13 degrees until the level of alcohol reaches 5% when the wine is fortified to 16.5% abv stopping the fermentation
Wine aged on the fine lees for 6 months