Tasting notes:

Bright shining, medium yellow color. Intense varietal aromas completed with the smell of apricot, honey, chamomile, and tints of oak. Fantastic taste, which is soft and crisp. Medium to full body, oily flavors, and integrated oak in the mouth. Unique and very long aftertaste.

Technical information

Domaine Bessa Valley Roussanne 2021

Date of harvest:

Variety Harvest date:

Roussanne 11.09.2021

Grape varieties:

100% Roussanne

Winemaking:

• Grapes analyses and determine harvest date
• Hand picking of the grapes, quality control in the vineyard
• Reception of the grapes: destemming and quality separation of whole berries on vibrating tables
• Direct pressing with pneumatic press machine in order to reach desired juice parameters: color, total acidity, phenols etc.
• Alcohol fermentation for 20 days at 14-16⁰C maximum in 400 dm3 and 500 dm3 new French oak barrels
• Batonnage on heavy lees for 6 months under CO2
• Batonnage on fine lees for 3 months under CO2
• Blending
• Stabilization
• Filtering
• Bottling

Average annual production:

3 615 bottles of 75 cl