Mary Taylor - Cahors Odile Delpon 2020 (Pre-arrival)

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Cahors once covered 48,000 hectares of vines, but after phylloxera shrank to 4,000 hectares. Nowadays there is less wine made in Cahors, but generally the quality is much higher.  Our friend Didier Pelvillain farms at the highest level of sustainability and biodynamic conversion is in process.  Only indigenous yeasts are used. The outcome is a floral, savory, peppery wine of refinement – clean and fresh – dark plum fruit with more mineral qualities than barnyard.

Our thoughtful friend Didier Pelvillain is the winemaker here, although we list his mother Odile Delpon on our label, as 32 years ago it was she who planted these vines in the single parcel where our grapes are grown called “Inspiration 7.9.” This is one parcel of many which are speckled along the terraces hovering over the Lot River. Here the vines are trained as single guyot, with only Malbec growing at a yield of about 50 hectoliters per hectare.

“I like to go into vineyards on Sunday night when it is quiet, to smell the vineyard and think about the level of maturity,” says Didier. This is intuitive wine making at its best.

  

Price: $15.99

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Producer	Mary Taylor
Country	France
Region	Cahors
Varietal	Cabernet Franc
Vintage	2020
Sku	22196
Size	750ml