boasts a delicate crimson hue, adorned with silky purple highlights. Its aroma is complex, luscious black and red fruits - strawberries, blackcurrants, and raspberries. The palate is velvety and ripe, black cherry, plum, liquorice and spice.
The Pinot Noir grapes come from southwest exposed clay-siliceous slopes of the right bank of the Cher River, the vines were planted in 1974. Fully destemmed, traditional fermentation in stainless steel tanks, with regular pump-overs. After a gentle resting period in the tanks, the wine matures for an average of 10 months in oak barrels that have previously held three vintages.
GUY ALLION, Thésée la Romaine
Terra Vitis accreditation
Cédric and Dorothée Allion run their 30-ha estate with great care and passion. Members of Terra Vitis, their viticultural methods are resolutely organic and sustainable, while minimum intervention during winemaking ensure the wines are pure and offer a true expression of the terroir. The vineyards are mostly planted on slopes overlooking the Cher river, close to the beautiful Chateaux of Chenonceaux and Chambord.