Gabriel Meffre
Muscat Beaumes de Venise 2016

VDN Muscat Beaumes de Venise White

Tasting

Light golden colour. Perfumed nose of white flowers, crystallized orange and exotic fruits. Velvety palate with candied fruit flavours (quince, pear, peach). A delicious Muscat, full and smooth with a delicate finish.

Food & wine pairings

As an aperitif, it also pairs nicely with a tropical fruit crumble and a Tarte Tatin.

Detailed information

Vintage

After a mild and dry winter, a spring without frost and a particularly hot summer, harvesting began several days later than 2015, with picking taking place between early to late September. During the harvest, weather conditions were truly exceptional, with warm clear days, fresh nights and some occasional light rainfall, stretching from early September all the way until the end of October. The sanitary state of the grapes throughout the region was excellent. So, this year again, the 2016 vintage is very qualitative particularly for southern appellations.

Grape varieties

Muscat à petits grains

Terroir

The «Muscat à petits grains» grapes are selected on the hillsides in the South of the appellation with a southern exposure and at around 120m in altitude.

Winemaking

Fully manual picking in 20 kg crates at optimum ripeness and manual sorting. Destemming of the entire harvest. Cold maceration (3°C for about 5 hours) for a part of the cuvée. Pressing, cold settling and fermentation under strict temperature control (12°C). The fermentation is stopped by rapid cooling of the tank to 0°C and the addition of grape spirit. 2% of the wine is aged 5 months in oak barrels.

Vegan Friendly.

Service

Enjoy it cool between 10°C to 12°C, now or cellar for up to 5 years.

Technical sheet

Gabriel Meffre

Delicious and savoury from day one: this is the commitment of our Gabriel Meffre "signature" wines. For each appellation, and in keeping with the characteristics of the vintage, our know-how is recognisable through our experienced blending of "terroirs" and grape varieties and through our careful maturing, favouring purity of fruit and silkyness of texture. Already enjoyable in their first year after bottling, the Crus also have good aging potential.