Lucile Avril 2018 | Domaine Durieu | Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Name: Lucile Avril 2018 | Domaine Durieu | Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Brand: Domaine Durieu
SKU: 60
Price: 33.25 EUR
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Domaine Durieu. From 6 hectares on the Plateau de Farguerol. 85% Grenache of 90 years, 10% Mourvèdre of 60 years and 5% Syrah. Hand-harvested without destemming.

Each variety vinified separately. Pump-overs twice a day. Grenache and Mourvèdre aged in concrete tanks for 18 months; Syrah in new barrels for 12 months. Bottled without clarification and with light filtration.

Lucile Avril

Bodega: Domaine Durieu
Año: 2018
Región: Ródano, Francia
Denominación de Origen: Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Este vino es un coupage elaborado con uvas Garnacha (85%), Monastrell (10%) y Syrah (5%). Procede de viñedos ubicados en el Plateau de Farguerol, donde las cepas de Garnacha tienen 90 años y la Monastrell alcanza los 60. La vendimia se realiza manualmente sin despalillado.

La vinificación se lleva a cabo por separadas para cada variedad, con bombeo dos veces al día durante el proceso. El vino pasa 18 meses en cubas de hormigón y las Syrahs adicionales se crian en barricas nuevas durante 12 meses. Se embotella sin clarificación y con una ligera filtración.

Perfil del Vino:
El Lucile Avril presenta aromas a hojas de laurel, clavo y frambuesa roja, cereza Bing y notas de chocolate oscuro y anís en boca. Es medio a cuerpo completo, con textura sedosa y una complejidad notable. Finaliza con un suave regusto de taninos suaves.

Puntuaciones y Comentarios:
Robert Parker otorgó 93 puntos al vino, destacando su gran complejidad y equilibrio, recomendándolo para disfrutar durante hasta una década.

El Lucile Avril es un vino elegante y complejo que destaca por su armonía entre variedades y crianza cuidadosa.

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Scents of bay leaf and clove accent red raspberries and Bing cherries on the nose of the 2018 Chateauneuf du Pape Lucile Avril, a cuvée dominated by old-vine Grenache. Medium to full-bodied, gorgeously silky and fine, with ample complexity, this delivers the goods, finishing in a gentle wash of soft tannins and hints of dark chocolate and licorice. It should drink well for up to a decade, perhaps even a bit longer.

Learn more about Domaine Durieu

The estate exists because of a wedding present. In 1976 Lucile Avril handed her son Paul Durieu a few hectares of vines so that he could start out on his own. The Avril family had been in Châteauneuf-du-Pape since the sixteenth century, and among those parcels were vines she had planted herself, some of them predating the First World War. To that Paul added what he inherited from his father, Henri, in Plan de Dieu and Côtes du Rhône.

From there he built the domaine: he bought five more hectares, put up the cellar and the winemaking facilities, and kept expanding to the present thirty-seven hectares in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, plus another sixty-eight in Côtes du Rhône and Côtes du Ventoux.

Since 2004 the house has been run by his sons, the brothers Vincent and François. And the name of the woman who started it all is still in the range: one of the cuvées is called Lucile Avril.

The vineyard is the classic of the appellation, covered in galets roulés, the rolled pebbles that store the day's heat and give it back at night.

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