Cuvée Tradition is aged in tanks only, then in bottle for several years before release. It has an extraordinary richness of flavor and texture along with firm acidity and minerality. A white dry organic wine from Chardonnay grapes which you could pair it with white meats, grilled fishes and cheese like goat cheese.
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Bongran is Thévenet’s original home estate (Domaine de Roally, also in Viré-Clessé, was added later). Cuvée Tradition is its single bottling of dry white wine (in certain vintages, a sweet botrytized wine is made). The old vines are organically farmed, manually harvested and notably late at a very high ripeness level. The grapes are pressed very slowly and gently. After settling, the juice is fermented in a tank with indigenous yeasts slowly, taking up to two years to finish. There are often a few grams of residual sugar remaining in the wine.
