Apicula 2012
Apicula 2012
Semillon, Muscadelle, Sauvignon Blanc
Bergerac, South West
Sweet
From Vincent’s older vines, aged for 18 months. Profoundly deep and unctuous, aromatic and honeyed: toasted nuts and fleshy stone fruits. Despite it’s depth, the wine manages to stay fresh and balanced.
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Cuvée: Apicula
Vintage: 2012
Producer: Chateau Barouillet
Region: France, Bergerac & Monbazillac in Pomport
Style + Colour: Still, Sweet
Grapes/Blend: Semillon, Muscadelle, Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 11%
Sulfur: none added
This is an original wine - drink it for the simple pleasure of taste! It will also match well with blue cheese or desserts.
A 40-hectare estate, fully organic since 2013. The 8th generation to work at the estate; Vincent Alexis joined his father in 2010 and talked him into bottling their own wines instead of selling them for bulk blending. 25ha are white. Vincent has recently planted lots more traditional grape varieties, Sulphur is only used on bottling for the Bergecrac Blanc and the Monbazillac. Soils are clay on limestone with iron and flint in the Pecharmant vineyards.
