Sauternes
If you visit a chateau in Sauternes, you'll learn all about the owner who had the brilliant idea one day to be late for the harvest and decided, probably out of stubbornness, to pick up the overripe grapes despite their unattractiveappearance.
In fact, no one knows who "invented" the Sauternes, when or where. If in Sauternes, the story is always hidden behind the legend, geography has no secrets. Each stone of the five municipalities of the Appellation (including Barsac, which has its own name) is identified and well known in all its components.
It is true that the diversity of soil (gravel, clay and limestone) and the subsoil gives character to each raw, the most famous being located on gravelly ridges. Obtained with three varieties - Semillon (70 to 80%), Sauvignon (20 to 30%) and Muscadelle - the golden Sauternes are both creamy and delicate. Their "roast" bouquet develops and becomes more complex over time: honey, hazelnut and candied orange enrich his palette. The larger bottles are living for decades. It should be noted that the Sauternes are the only white wines have been classified in 1855.
Château Roumieu
