Cosmos 2022

Name: Cosmos 2022
Brand: Domaine Pierre Menard
SKU: pierremenard-coteauxdulayoncosmos-2022-11.5%-500ml
Price: 85.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$85.00

Loire Valley, France · Full Bodied

Cosmos is Pierre Ménard's indulgent outlier: a Coteaux du Layon from Chenin touched by noble rot, made only in the years the botrytis arrives. It comes from the same schist hillsides as his dry whites, but here the shrivelled, concentrated fruit is left to become something richer. Candied citrus, dried apricot, honey and warm spice, with a sumptuous sweetness held in balance by Anjou's bright acidity: rich, but never heavy. A sweet wine to end an evening on, with a blue cheese or simply on its own.

Pairing Suggestions

Sweetness against salt: salted egg custard bao or a slice of durian cake.
Or foie gras, which in the Layon is more or less the local answer.

About Domaine Pierre Menard

Pierre Menard makes some of the most impressive Chenin Blanc wines in Faye d'Anjou in the Loire Valley of France. He grew up in a winemaking family and his parents own several hectares of land within the Côteaux du Layon, where they farm Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc grapes to sell to local cooperatives. Some of these vines are hundred-over years old. Within these plots of land, Pierre has isolated a few plots and started to create his own wines.

Pierre masterful creates several types of Chenin Blanc from each plot, in which he showcases the differences in the ages of the vines, soil types and location of the plots.
The grapes are harvested manually and the winemaking is low intervention, no new oak, barrels range from 1-3 years, and a slow cold fermentation that often lasts until the spring adds layers of complexity and depth.

Even though Pierre Menard has only been making wine for a few years, his wines are highly sought after and we are grateful to be working together!

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