Pelle Menetou-Salon Morogues Rouge 2008

A Domaine Henry Pelle red wine

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Our price £13.70 (inc VAT)

Minimum order quantity is 6 bottles.

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Country	France
Region	Loire
Class	Menetou-Salon - Organic
Grape	Pinot Noir

Volume	75cl
Style	Light and easy
Organic	Yes

Situated right in the heart of France, in the extreme east of the Loire Valley, a stone's throw from Bourges lies the charming little Berry village of Morogues with its fields, meadows and slopes clustered around its very beautiful church. The Domaine Henry Pellé cellars are nestled at the foot of one of these slopes. The vines grow in Kimmeridgean clay-limestone marl made up of myriads of minute fossilized oyster shells called locally terre blanche or white soil. Out of respect for the terroir the estate practices organic viticulture (promoting healthy soil, and a living environment, fauna). Working the soil and green harvesting helps to control yields, ultimately focusing the fruit flavours. Grapes are gravity fed into pneumatic presses and fermented using natural yeasts while thermo-regulated stainless steel tanks allow control over fermentation. These wines with tongue-samba-ing acidity will introduce the notion of oystercide in your mind's palate. Take a shot glass, chill it in t' freezer for twenty minutes, bang some Menetou-S in and deck it with some friendly natives (I'm still speaking bivalves here). Showing lively nostril-arching gorse and broom aromas there is a bristling palatal interplay between grapefruit, blackcurrant and shell-like minerality. The red Menetou, from Pinot Noir, has a clear garnet colour, not much darker than a dark rosé. It shows rather vegetal greentomato aromas over vinous red fruit at first, and hits the palate with a lean and herbal first impression; but a little time in the glass sees the nose add pleasant spicy notes of cinnamon and cloves, and the flavour develops full, almost plush red fruit with plenty of lemony acidity to give it structure.

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