Helena at the base of Spring Mountain
A fully mature and elegantly pure nose features notes green apple and limestone notes that lead to frank
rich aftertaste and firm tannins
It’s not malo-fermented into a tub of butter
The only wine to see partial aging in foudre (20% new)
Domaine d'Aupilhac, Mont Baudile, Le Carignan 2006 LOIRE LUXE Helena at the base ofThree generations of Fadats have farmed the large, eighteen hectare lieu dit known as Aupilhac, in the village of Montpeyroux, across the river Hrault from Daumas Gassac and Grange des Pres. While the Fadats have farmed this land since the nineteenth century, and the vineyards date even farther back to the time of the Romans, it was not until 1989 that the current member of the Fadat family, Sylvain, finally registered the domaine as a vigneron