First night Accord Tannique in the pretty town of Rennes and for a caviste newly installed here, Maud Rousselot, who was a sommelier for starred tables like Robuchon and the Jules-Verne Eiffel Tower in Paris! On the program, a selection of 5 wines chosen together, and 5 musical chords with local guitarist Enzo Robin.
Tour de France : discover terroirs with 5 wines
- House Dehours – Great Reserve – PDO Champagne – not vintage
- Domaine de Bellivière – Calligram – AOP Jasnières – 2021
- Land area – Amphora – AOP St-Pourçain – 2023
- Domaine Les Terres Promised – Lovevèdre – AOP Bandol – 2022
- Domaine Cazes – Rivesaltes Tiled – AOP Rivesaltes – 2007
Musical chords by guitarist Enzo Robin
We let ourselves embark by the sweet music of Autumn Leaves, then come from hispanic sounds, more festive and warm. A passage through the Brazilian music of Colin Powell, melancholy and sun combined, and one ends with a magnificent duo with a reprise of the famous Tamacun by Rodrigo y Gabriela
Back in image of the evening
The tasting sheets of the Soenologist
Wine 1 – GOURMAN CHAMPAGNE, ON FRUIT
Area : Maison Dehours (Jérôme Dehours since 1996, 4th generation)
Name: Champagne
Terror : Vallée de la Marne (15 km from Epernay) southwest of Reims. Left bank.
Terrors made of clays and sands laid on limestone mother rocks.
Grape(s): Pinot millier (60%), supplemented by 25% chardonnay and 15% pinot black
Cuvée: Grande Réserve (principal cuvée of the estate, takes its name from the high proportion of wine in reserve)
Vintage: non-millennial (perpetual reserve started in 1998 = solera)
Service: 10°
Carafage: 30 min
Alcohol: 12%
Description : It is a low-dose cuvée (less than 7 grams/litre), a dosage representative of the philosophy of the house, which offers a beautiful expression and a great generosity in its aromas. Maturation 15 to 27 months in bottle.
Pinot Meunier : an identity grape from the Marne valley
Eye : Golden dress with carmine reflections. The bubble is very thin, dynamic.
Nose : Complex, gives off aromas of flowers, honey, moka and white fleshy fruits. Nice grilled and buttered character.
Mouth : Nette, presents a successful marriage between freshness and maturity. The dosage is right, it magnifies the finesse and elegance of this champagne. There is a nice persistence with a fresh and gourmet finish.
Music & Wine Agreement : Autumn Leaves (Enzo Arrangement) 7-8
Music by Joseph Kosma – French lyrics by Jacques Prévert
Autumn Leaves is certainly the French standard most recorded by jazzmen.
WINE N°2 – THE WINE OF SOIRE
Area : Domaine de Bellivière (Éric Nicolas)
Name: Jasnières (Loire)
The vineyard of Jasnières is the only winery located in the Sarthe department. Located along the Loir, famous sub-tributary of the Loire, and west of Vendôme, Jasnières is the northernmost name of the Loire Valley.
Éric and Christine Nicolas are the founders of the Domaine de Bellivière, which counts in the panorama of Loire wines, and not only for the quality of their gourmet wines with controlled sugars. On two unknown appellations of the general public, Jasnières and Coteaux-du-Loir, the couple creates the domain of all pieces in 1995, first by rehabilitating an old farm body, then, little by little, by bringing together about twenty hectares of vines in five communes. In organic since 2005, the whole vineyard is certified in Biodynamics in 2011.
In the cellar: natural vinification, work by gravity, breeding in caves troglodytes...
Joined the Domaine by their son Clement since 2015, Bellivière's future is in good hands. The praises are deserved, the wines are of implacable accuracy.
Grape(s): 100% Chenin (vignes over 70 years old)
Cuvée: Calligram
Vintage: 2021 (fresh)
Service: 12°
Carafage: 2H
Alcohol: 13,5%
Description : A great white overflowing with energy, in the register of poetry // Enchanting. Wine cut for guard, which any ligerian white fan must have in his cellar.
Dress : golden dress
Nose : complex, on honeyed white fruits, candied orange, dried fruits, mineral tip.
Tasting : one is actually in the poetic register, endless length, true greedy, with 2,72 grams of residual sugars / liter. Powerful bitters.
Food & Wine Agreement : After a nice aeration, it will accompany the fish cooked in white butter
Music & Wine Agreement : Prelude in the minor – Baden Powell (Brazilian composer) 9min
Poetic, arpeggio, enchanting, energy takes time to come. Stay happy despite a melancholy side!
WINE N°3 – WINE OF COPAIN BY EXCELLENCE
Area : Land of Ocre
Name: VdF Auvergne
Located in the heart of the appellation Saint-Pourçain on the communes of Châtel de Neuvre and Meillar, the estate extends over 9.5 hectares of vines, dividing into 3.30 hectares of white vines with the Trésailler and Chardonnay and 6.20 hectares in red with the Gamay and Pinot noir. Very quickly, Florent's talent and the fruit of his work are recognized.
Terror : pink granite
Grape(s): 100% Gamay
Cuvée: Amphora
Vintage: 2023
Service: 16°
Carafage: 2H
Description : A delicious Gamay: on notes of ripe, fleshy, gourmet cherry. Soft, round, silky. A "wine pleasure" par excellence! 6 months of amphora rearing (cooked garden)
Dress : Deep red with purple reflections
Nose: Of wild black fruit
Tasting : with a soft mouth attack with notes of aromas of spices and black fruits.
Food & Wine Agreement : Apero and grill
Fresh / Accessible / Terror of the future / Tomorrow's vineyard / diversity
Music and Wine Agreement : music sung in Spanish, percussion, evocation of holidays.
What hubiera sido 4-5
Wine #4 : Tasty, spicy and fresh!
Name: Bandol
Area : Promised Lands
Terror : At 400 meters above sea level, on a dolomitic limestone terroir of the upper Jurassic, about 30 kilometers from the Mediterranean.
This 13 hectare estate, created by Jean-Christophe Comor on the foothills of the Sainte-Baume massif, is worked in organic. The wines are very little sulphur and, of course, the yeasts industrial or acid are banned from the cellar.
This former Parisian, professor at Sciences Po, has, in a few years, succeeded in his bet and elaborates wines of character, solar, elegant and complex with a style that refines with vintages. A reference to be followed closely.
Grape(s): 95% Mourvèdre and 5% Grenache
Cuvée: Love
Vintage: 2022
Service: 18°
Carafage: 2H
Alcohol: 14%
Description : It's a Raced bandol with velvety tannins and persistent fruit notes. A warm southern wine (but that keeps freshness) = paradox!
A form of graphite minerality (the pebbles still the pebbles) is notable in the final, it will marry perfectly with nicely peppered beef, or a chicken.
After good ventilation, pure pleasure!!
Nose : Black and red fruit, spicy. Notes of ripe fruit, spices, a touch of leather and a subtle woody well integrated.
Tasting : Velouté and all in finesse despite its tempered character.
Food & Wine Agreement : Red meat, Meat in sauce, Gibier
Accord Music & Wine : A Hora Y Media (5) – Luis Mariano
Wine #5 : The sun in bottle
Area : Cazes
Name: Rivesaltes (AOP Roussillon)
Founded in 1895 by Michel Cazes in the province of Roussillon. Located at the foot of the Corbières foothills, in the Agly Valley. The soils, predominantly argilo-calcary, are dotted with shale debris and siliceous pebbles, an association that is remarkably conducive to the production of great wines.
More than 220 hectares, fully converted into organic and biodynamic farming.
Grape(s): 100% Black Grenache
Cuvée: Rivesaltes tiled (VDN = mutated wine)
Vintage: 2007
Service: 10-12°
Alcohol: 19%
Description : This natural sweet wine is raised fifteen years old in old French oak lightnings. Made with 100% Black Grenache, its roasted and cocoay notes blend perfectly with powerful Munster or Maroilles cheeses, and chocolate and coffee pastries.
Nose : Powerful, complex nose, roasted aromas, nuts, caramel, cocoa.
Tasting : The palate develops a broad and sweet flesh, covered with flavors of coffee, roasting and plum.
Music & Wine Agreement : Tamacun – Rodrigo y Gabriela (arr. Enzo)
