This is a sparkling wine made from grapes from the Domaine de Cinquau in Jurancon, but the rules of the appellation does not include sparkling wines.One reason they have this wine is that the Domaine also rents out a venue for weddings and other celebrations and making this wine means they have a sparkling wine to offer those who hire the venue. The label also says Methode Traditionelle, but they do not make the wine on site. Instead the base wine (made from Gros Manseng) is bulked shipped to a Bordeaux wine maker who turns it into these sparklers.
As for the wine, it was yellow with gold hints and good streams of medium bubbles. There was a crisp acid nose, with an initial acid prickle followed by a crisp acid palate, with an acidic backbone for support.
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