Traditional-method Blanquette from high-altitude Limoux vineyards: 100% Mauzac, 12 months sur lattes and zero dosage, giving a crisp, saline, citrus-led fizz.
This is based on the 2021 vintage which was aged for six months in cuve, some reserve wine from 2020 was added before being bottled off for ageing 'sur lattes' – disgorged in December 2023 with no dosage, Amazing value fizz!
Notes on the producer
Prior to 2011, in his early twenties, Étienne Fort used to sell the high-quality grapes from his family's property, the Château St Salvadou, to the local co-op where they ended up in a generic sparkling wine.
With 11ha of older vines in deep limestone-clay soils located at 450m altitude (the highest blocks of vines in the appellation), Étienne knew that the fruit he was giving away was a cut above, and so he decided to produce his first domaine bottled Crémant and Blanquette de Limoux in 2013. Inspired by great Champagnes, all farming is respectful of his exceptional terroir and the fruit is harvested manually.
