Our Wines
“With minimal impact on our beautiful surroundings and amazing terroir, we simply aim to make delicious and high quality wines.”
After hundreds of years of winemaking at Chateau la Yotte, we are writing a new chapter. We were stunned by the diversity of terroir we found in Loupiac from the highs of the steep hills to the shores of the Garonne river. After extensive soil tests and taking the changing climate into account, we replanted all our land with root stocks and varieties that will flourish in the decades to come. Our first wines with all varieties contributing will be bottled in winter 2024. Stay tuned!
With no less than six red wine grape varieties in the ground we have a countless number of clone and rootstock combinations. We planted them knowing the challenges of organic grape growing and what warmer climates will bring. Consulting the history books we were reminded of what used to produce the best wines on our beautiful slopes two centuries ago. We planted old clones of Cabernet Franc on limestone slopes and Malbec recognising that it was a dominating varietal in the region two centuries ago. We planted Petit Verdot in sand soil for its rewarding flavour characters, knowing it also brings hard work and sleepless nights. We planted Touriga Nacional, finding the perfect spot of land for it, and we planted Castets, bringing back a principally forgotten and extinct Bordelaise grape variety. We planted some Merlots, ensuring we have the mouthfeel and mid palate covered.
Our Creme de la Creme
By designs we will not lack ripe grapes giving character, longevity, refreshing acidity and grippy tannins. With six varieties and even more clones and soil types, we may drive our cellar workers mad but make our onologist euphoric as we are rewarded with countless components at our disposal. We proudly aim very high and work hard to prove that we are capable of great wines of quality and elegance. After pressing our fermented dry wines, we age our varieties separate from each other for at least 12 month in french oak barrels, the classic Bordelaise 225 liter barriques, and then in bottle for the wine to integrate as one. We aim for the stars.
Refreshing Rose
There may be a temperature at which even the Milan is not refreshing enough. For such sunny days our crisp roses, made by bleeding our Malbec, Merlot and Cabernet Franc vats will be essential. We aim for a lower alcohol, refreshing acidity combination that allows you to enjoy more than a small glass. Fermenting slowly at a cooler temperature, this rose offers sweet strawberry and raspberry flavours and a perfect choice for an aperitif in the sun .. or at least when you just want to dream of it?
Le Milan, elegant and RACY
Spending our summers in Southern Sweden, we have a special relationship to the kite, the bird of pray that is has chosen the Bjäre peninsula as it’s favourite nesting place. Establishing our family in France, we were comforted to find the skies above us full of beautiful migrating kites where it spends its time from spring to fall before finding warmer winters in Africa. Other than keeping our vineyards clean from pests, the arrival of our spectacular summer visitors marks the arrival of warmer weathers, which calls for fresh summery drinks. Le Milan is the french word for the bird that we borrow to name our elegant unoaked red to even be enjoyed slightly chilled when the sun shines.
Different, quite different
We dare to say that there is not a winery like ours. The feedback from our neighbours when robots work the parcels of Tourigas and Castets range from applause to remarks that we are barking mad. We respond by making a wine principally by our grapes not allowed in any great quantity in the appellation, hence this cuvee is a ”vin de France”. Emphasising just how different a wine this is, we ask patients at an open mental hospital in a neighbouring village to make us art we can use as labels, which hence will be different each year. Parts of sales are reinvested in local charities. We are just beyond excited about this series!
And more…
We want to present the monocépages, the single varieties, and even more interesting combinations
where 1+1 equals more than 2.
