L’ironda AOP Bordeaux white 2022 Organic – 100% Sauvignon Blanc

Pale colour with silver and green highlights. Very intense, fresh bouquet with remarkable citrus fruit. Fine balance between volume and freshness on the palate, with a long aftertaste of lime. A lively wine with great aromatic freshness. GRAPE VARIETIES 100% Sauvignon Blanc GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN Commune of Braud-et-Saint-Louis, on the banks of the Gironde estuary. SOIL Deep clay soils on slopes where large shrinkage cracks form in summer. The vines are deep-rooted in these vertical fissures and extend new roots into the subsoil. When wet, particularly in winter, the clay expands, closing the macropores and destroying these roots as the soil dries out. The root architecture of each vine is thus maintained in a constant tension between physical stress and regrowth. This promotes the gradual, early onset of moderate water stress, conducive to producing grapes with fine winemaking potential. VITICULTURE Sustainable pruning, bud pruning, leaf thinning, green harvesting. The high leaf canopy rapidly consumes the soil’s water reserves by evapotranspiration and ensures an adequate leaf-to-fruit ratio, propitious to good concentration and extraction. The grapes are picked early in the morning at optimum ripeness (slightly overripe), to preserve their intrinsic fruitiness and full aromatic expression. FERMENTATION In stainless-steel vats. FOOD & WINE PAIRINGS With aubergine caviar on toast as an aperitif, shellfish and citrus fruit salads, white fish (such as sea bass and pollack)