Monbazar 2021
Monbazar 2021
One of our all-time favourite dessert wines, balancing it's dried-apricot sweetness with bright acidity and freshness. Such a crowd pleaser.
Style: Still
Producer: Château Barouillet
Country: France
Region: Pomport, Bergerac
Grapes: Semillon, Muscadelle, Chenin
ABV: 11.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
A 40-hectare estate, fully organic since 2013. The 8th generation to work at the estate; Vincent Alexis joined his father in 2010 and talked him into bottling their own wines instead of selling them for bulk blending. 25ha are white. Vincent has recently planted lots more traditional grape varieties, Sulphur is only used on bottling for the Bergecrac Blanc and the Monbazillac. Soils are clay on limestone with iron and flint in the Pecharmant vineyards.