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Domaine d'Emile et Rose
Carignan Blanc Passerilles, Emile et Rose

A beautiful golden late harvest wine made from Carignan Blanc, this is truly special. It has a complex nose with orange, apricot, peach, and more fruit noted with just a trace of sweet spice.

The palate is equally interesting, with more orange, apricot, peach and touches of sweet pear all noted, and on the long length sweet spice and even a touch of sweet herbs coming through.

With 25-30 g per litre of residual sugar it is off-dry to medium dry. It has complexity, balance and a certain something that takes it beyond the ordinary. A very special wine that is very rare.

Maturity: Delicious now, but has much aging potential

Food: A wine to savour - I haven't worked out what food it will go best with, but when I do I will update this page!

Alcohol:15% or 11 units per bottle

Variety: 100% Carignan Blanc (80 year old vines)

Terroir: Limestone based soils with much sand and many pebbles

Yields 15 hl/ha

Vinification:

The grapes were left for an additional 4 weeks on the vine, where they dried out, concentrating the must
Grapes are de-stemmed before a short period of skin contact and pressing
The must is fermented and the wine aged in large oak barrels for 24 months
The fermentation finished naturally after several months
The wine was not fined or filtered before bottling
Total production was less than 1200 bottles