Domaine Piétri Géraud Blanc L’Écume 2021
Collioure AOP
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A fine, crisp white from a 5th-generation Roussillon estate. Bare soils, vertical vineyards close to the Med, these extreme conditions make for a sensational white. Grenache Blanc, Gris and Vermentino, fermented in new oak in Laetitia's tiny cellar.
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Wine Details
- White - Dry
- Fine wine
France- Pale Green Straw
- Grenache Blanc
- 10.125 Units
- 13.5% ABV
- 31 December 2024
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Very mineral and citrus driven, with hazelnut, herbs, weight and spice
Aroma
Grapefruit zest, peach, mango, lightly toasted almond, herbal, aniseed
Allergy information
Contains Sulphites
The Wine
If you’ve watched Rick Stein’s series Hidden France, you’ve met Laetitia; she took him into her Collioure cellar perched amid her virtually vertical, terraced vineyards, overlooking the blue Med. It’s her oak-fermented dry white that is so extraordinary. And she is even more so. An artist, with a motor that never stops. Her terraced vineyards are the steepest in France. The soil is rock, the climate arid and the yield per hectare a fraction that of vineyards on the flat land nearby. She’s the only winemaker to have a winery in the narrow streets of Collioure. How does she get her grapes through those tourist-jammed passages in August? She is an unstoppable wine force! Handpicked grapes, fermented in barrel, the wine is crisp and complex.
If you’ve watched Rick Stein’s series Hidden France, you’ve met Laetitia; she to...
Laetitia has the most beautiful vineyards and produces this extraordinary crisp, oaked white
Tony Laithwaite
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