Château Gres Saint Paul | Bohémienne | Muscat Moelleux Vendanges Passerillées 2006

PV Tasting Notes

It appears I really am a push-over for a glass of great Muscat and the 2006 Grès St Paul Bohémienne is a real turn-on. Most of their appeal is the delicacy and intensity of their huge, perfumed, fragrant noses. This wine offers up a smorgasbord of tropical fruits and lychee marmalade combined with spring flower garden scents. It is medium sweet, elegant, and ripe, with gorgeous balance and freshness.

Perfectly suited to serving with nuts and dried fruits, would also suit a good quality Christmas cake or even plain cake, you could also have it with chocolates and coffee or a tad drizzled on ice cream and a glass at the side. Ideal for small almond after dinner biscuits or any creamy blue cheese, alternatively, plain and simple, on its own, delicious.

Year in year out Château Grès Saint Paul produce a succession of great wines of true value, which if tasted blind amongst some of the better known wines of the Rhône selling at four and five times the price they would be in the top selection from virtually every vintage. The two partners of the Château, Jean-Philippe Servière and Philippe Salasc are without doubt two of the finest life loving and generous people one could ever wish to meet, totally committed to producing the finest wines available throughout the Languedoc region. The legion of awards won over the past decade stands as testament both to their artistic skill and their stoic workmanship.

Characteristics : Late harvest, sweet muscat
Yields: 35 Hl/Ha
Harvest: Manual
Terroir: Villafranchien (pebbly and gravelly). Deep and poor soils
Microclimate: cool microclimate at an altitude of 50 meters
Vinification: - Complete de-stemming, direct pressing followed by a racking of the must at low temperature (6°C) during 24 hours.
- Slow fermentation at low temperature (14°C) where one part of the natural sugars is not turned into alcohol (residual sugars circa 60 grams)
Ageing: Maturing in stainless steel tank with a stirring of the fine lees each month