Region: Savoie, France
Appellation:  IGP Vin des Allobroges
Color/Style: White Wine
Grapes:  Altesse

From Coteau de Cevins. Vines planted on south facing slopes, with up to a 60% grade. Gobelet training. Poor and shallow mica schist soils. Only indigenous yeasts are used and no SO2 during vinification. Malolactic fermentation is not carried out systematically. The wine is vinified whole cluster in barriques (25% new, 75% two to three years old) and aged for 18 months. Bottled after light filtration with only one gram of sulfur used.