La Joute is a new wine for the Mosse family. It is a blend of Chardonnay (20%) and Chenin Blanc (80%) and shows the best of each variety. The grapes have been sourced from their own vines for this wine.

Following crushing and fermentation, the juice was placed in used barriques for ten months until it was ready for bottling.

The Chardonnay provides freshness and acidity, and the Chenin Blanc provides the characteristics that we have come to expect from a Mosse wine that uses Chenin Blanc.

It has the freshness and gorgeous texture that all the Mosse white wines display and that lingering Chenin aftertaste that is just so-o-o Mosse!

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Soil: clay, quartz on shale

Age of the vines: Vine planted in 2015 for the Chenin and 1987 for the Chardonnay

Grapes: Chenin and Chardonnay

Vine management: certified organic farming FR-BIO-10

Size: Guyot

Planting density: 6,000 vines/ha

Yields: 30hl/ha

Harvest: manual (Beginning of September 2020)

Vinification: slow pressing and spontaneous fermentation in barrels. Indigenous yeasts. Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels. Aged for 8 months on lees without batonnage. Unfiltered wine.

Alcohol: 12.5%

Total sulfur in mg/L: Below Quantification Limits

Bottling: June 16, 2021