Coteaux du Layon Rochefort

This is the Loire's answer to Sauternes. The sweet white Coteaux du Layon Rochefort is made from extra-ripe, hand-picked Chenin Blanc grapes. When autumns here are warm and sunny the grapes develop a benevolent fungus called Botrytis Cinerea (known as noble rot), which shrivels the grapes, thus reducing the yield and concentrating the juice.

The wine is pale to deep yellow in colour, has a honeyed bouquet, and a fresh and lively fruitiness that fills the mouth with the most wonderfully long and complex flavours. It is absolutely delicious to drink young, but will go on improving for many years. This is a most versatile wine, equally good as an aperitif (well chilled) as with foie gras, fish or chicken in sauce, or even Roquefort cheese. (If you haven't already tried this wine with cheese - especially blue cheese - you are missing out - it goes with more cheeses than most red wines.)

As a Partner at Domaine de la Motte your allocation of wine is:

• Coteaux du Layon Rochefort 2007 (white)
  5,83€ per bottle (exc. VAT)

• Anjou blanc Clos des Belles Mères 2007 (white)
  3,20€ per bottle (exc. VAT)

• Anjou-Villages rouge 2006 (red)
  4,50€ per bottle (exc. VAT)

Maximum 4 cases in any combination.

Next option available: November 2008. Partners joining after Oct 1st in any year will receive their Option the following year.

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