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2019 Alexandre Bain, Pierre Précieuses, Vin de France

  • White
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Sauvignon Blanc
Ready - at best
Product: 20198242053
2019 Alexandre Bain, Pierre Précieuses, Vin de France

Description

Pierre Précieuses is Alexandre’s flagship cuvée. It is aged 38 months before release, 18 months in barrel and 20 months in stainless steel and undergoes no battonnage during this whole time. The nose is delicate with white flowers, lovely lemon and grapefruit notes, and juicy, fresh quince.

The finesse and freshness are striking on the palate, whilst having a great consistency and body. Plenty of citrus peel and grapefruit bitterness is balanced with honey, buttery notes, and some sweet spices, and it is truly complex. These bursts of intense flavours are perfectly balanced through a very lifted palate and impressive fruit precision. Utterly delicious.

Yoan Bernard, Fine Wine Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Sauvignon Blanc
Body Full Bodied
Producer Alexandre Bain

About this wine

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves. It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.
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France

France

France is the world’s leading fine wine producer. Its key regions – Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Loire, Rhône, Alsace and, increasingly, Languedoc Roussillon – set the benchmark internationally for a diverse range of wine styles. The country’s grape varieties are grown, and its wines emulated, throughout the world.
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Alexandre Bain

Located in Pouilly Fumé, Alexandre Bain does not make traditional Pouilly Fumé style Sauvignon Blanc but something much more unique and atypical to the appellation.
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