Pierre Chainier Brut, Crémant de Loire Vintage:NV

Pierre Chainier Brut, Crémant de Loire Vintage:NVFine creamy bubbles with baked peaches, clementine, peach yoghurt and a touch of hazelnut and almond. Crisp, clean with a touch of green apple tartness. Hand harvested and selected grapes are vinified in steel cuves before being bottled and made according to the Traditional Method. Aged on the lees for 12 months with a dosage of 7gms ltr. Formed in 1973, Pierre Chainier is both a ngociant and the owner of some 250 hectares of vines in the heart of

In essence a “baby” Puligny-Montrachet

Duck confit or shoulder of lamb

The ultimate collection of pale

A wet winter set the vines up for a healthy start to the season

Located on soils similar to those of the Côte's grands crus

spicy and sweet

The palate is round with red fruit flavours

Machine harvesting has the advantage of picking in the early hours of the morning before daylight when the temperature rises

with vines on average 50-60 years old

the wine was then put into a selection of new and older American and French hogshead barrels for 12 months

just behind the old fishing village of Hermanus

aiming for everyone around the table to join in