Cremant de Limoux
Cremant De Limoux Rose & Brut Rose
Salmon rose colour with very fine bubbles. Liveliness, rich and pleasant. Complex bouquet with red fruit aromas (strawberry, raspberry) and toasted bread notes. Very good long length. Serve at 10°C as an aperitif, with delicately smoked fish or salted, sweet or spicy food. Ideal with fresh red fruits dessert. The Crémant de Limoux is a sparkling wine resulting from the blending of three varietals: Chardonnay gives the fine bubbles,Chenin gives its sparkling freshness and elegant structure and the Pinot which gives its exceptional colour.
Brut
A blending of the Mauzac, Chenin and Chardonnay grapes. Golden yellow. Crisp, lively and elegant. Delicate aromas of white flowers and pear. Hint of hazelnut expand into a light honeyed texture and long persistent bubbles. Ideal as an aperitif, this sparkling also pairs well with salads, fish and chicken dishes.
Did you know? Blanquette de Limoux is considered to be the first sparkling white wine produced in France, created long before the Champagne region became world renowned for its sparkling wine. The first manuscript mention of blanquette [from the Occitan word for "white"], appeared in 1531 in papers written by Benedictine monks at an abbey in Saint-Hilaire. They detail the production and distribution of Saint-Hilaire's blanquette in cork-stoppered flasks. The region's location, north of the cork oak forest of Cataluña, gave Limoux producers easy access to the material needed to produce secondary fermentation in the flask, which produces the bubbles commonly associated with sparkling wine. Local legend has it that Dom Pérignon invented sparkling white wine while serving in this Abbey before moving to the Champagne region and popularizing this new sparkling wine. When the term Crémant was introduced for non-Champagne sparkling wines in France, an AOC for more "modern" or internationally-styled sparkling wines, was created in 1990. The origin of that decision occurred a year earlier, in 1989, when the producers of Limoux had to decide on whether or not they wanted to maintain the traditional style of Blanquette de Limoux based on the Mauzac grape only or relax the AOC regulations to allow the introduction of more Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay. Limoux producers were split on what direction they wanted to go, so the provisional appellation of Crémant de Limoux was introduced to allow the producers to make the style of sparkling wine that they preferred and still sell it under an AOC designation.