Description
Les Champs Libres was born in 2013 from an impulsive idea that came from Julie and Baptiste Guinaudeau. This new cru is the fruit of long lasting experience combined with precision work in the white parcels at Grand Village. In 2012, they kept apart two barrels of Sauvignon ”À Louima”, which showed exceptional aromatic complexity and were bottled separately. The resulting 240 bottles and 120 magnums were baptized as “À Louima 2012”. They represent the departure on a new adventure. In 2013 they decided to blend the best barrels coming from three key Sauvignon parcels: À Louima, Les Pêchers and Les Acacias, to create Les Champs Libres 2013. A new parcel, Mathilde, joined in 2014 to complete this new cru.
Tasting Notes :
The Les Champs Libres 2019 Blanc reveals notes of lime blossom, citrus zest, wet stones and pastry cream aromas. Medium to full-bodied, taut and incisive, it’s chalky and concentrated, with racy acids, lovely structuring dry extract and a long, mineral finish. It’s produced from Sancerrois massal selections of Sauvignon Blanc (and now a tiny percentage of Sémillon, too) planted on deep clay soils on the slopes at Grand Village. Like many of this family’s wines, it makes a mockery of Bordeaux’s traditional hierarchy
