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Clos d'Audhuy Cahors Malbec Les Polissons 2023 750mL
Clos d'Audhuy Cahors Malbec Les Polissons 2023 750mL
FRANCE : SUD-OUEST : CAHORS
BIODYNAMIC : Malbec
FULL-BODIED, BLACKBERRY, VIOLET, DARK CHOCOLATE, NEUTRAL OAK
Cahors is Malbec's actual birthplace — Argentina picked up the grape a century after this stretch of the Lot valley had already built a reputation on it, and the appellation still leans on its old nickname, vin noir, for the deep color thick-skinned Malbec throws off.
Benoit Aymard took over his family's overgrown plots in Lacapelle-Cabanac in 2014 — third generation on the land, first generation running his own winery — and replanted better Malbec clones at higher density across the domaine's limestone Causse plateau and lower river-terrace soils. The estate farms biodynamically.
Les Polissons is his answer to Cahors' reputation for tannic, cellar-only Malbec: small-lot stainless fermentation, minimal sulfur, aged in large neutral barrels just long enough to hold the fruit together. The name is a nod to his kids, Paul and Lisson, and a fair description of the wine — a little mischievous, built for drinking now rather than later.
PAIRINGS :
| Cassoulet | the classic Sud-Ouest match; dark fruit and acid cut the duck confit and beans |
| Seared duck breast | char and rendered fat stand up to the tannin without burying the fruit |
| Roquefort or other sheep's-milk blue | salt and funk round out into the fruit rather than fighting it |
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