Crémant de Limoux NV
Product sheet: cavecuvee.se/producenter/mouscaillo/cremant-de-limoux-nv/produktblad.pdf
- Type
- Sparkling
- Country
- France
- Region
- Languedoc
- Appellation
- Crémant de Limoux
- Grapes
- 60% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir, 10% Chenin
- Soil
- Clay-limestone with Nummulites and Turritella fossils, pH 8.5
- Vinification
- Hand harvest with strict sorting in the vineyard. The grapes are picked a little riper than is usual for sparkling wine (12–12.5% potential alcohol), to make a more vinous sparkling wine. Only the first juice is kept (2 kg of grapes per litre). Fermentation and then 8 months on the lees in oak demi-muids (600 l) more than 10 years old. Malolactic fermentation completed. Second fermentation in bottle, with the estate's own grape must. Aged at least 18 months sur lattes. No dosage (brut nature).
- Other
- Yield 40–60 hl/ha. Vine density 5,500 vines/ha on the old vines and 7,500 on the younger ones. Residual sugar below 2 g/l.
- Bottle size
- 75 cl
- Case size
- 12 bottles
- Alcohol
- 12.5%
- Vine age
- 3–49 years
- Exposure
- Two plots at 400 m altitude, facing north and south, with a mainly Pyrenean climate and Atlantic and Mediterranean influences
- Total SO2
- 60 mg/l
- Food pairing
- Oysters, scallops and white meat
Domaine de Mouscaillo's Crémant de Limoux is a brut nature of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Chenin from two plots at 400 metres in Roquetaillade. The grapes are picked by hand, a little riper than is usual for sparkling wine, for a more vinous wine, and only the first juice is kept. It ferments and ages for eight months on its lees in old 600-litre oak barrels, then at least 18 months in bottle, and gets no dosage.