APPEARANCE: soft, creamy mousse with long-lasting cordon around the glass, lingering bead.
COLOUR: intense straw-yellow.
BOUQUET: elegant, rich and multi-layered with fragrances of peach, apricot and tropical fruit, gradually more emphatic, before yielding to notes of candied citrus fruit.
PALATE: tangy acidity and savoury flavourswith a full, firm structure. The clean-cut, lingering finish complements a wine of rare pleasure.
HARVEST PERIOD: second half of August/mid-August.
YIELD: 9,000 kg of grapes per hectare with 55% must yield, equivalent to 6,600 bottles per hectare.
VINIFICATION: gentle, gradual pressing of clusters with fractioning of the must; alcoholic fermentation in steel vats .
MATURATION: assemblage of the cuvée in the spring following harvest, with the contribution of 10% reserve wines aged in barriques and tonneaux.
Second fermentation in the bottles and maturation sur liefor a minimum of 24 months followed by an additional 2 months after disgorgement. The lower overpressure in the bottles (5 atmospheres) typical of Satèn endows it with a creamy elegance.