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Domaine Castéra - Jurançon 2018 (750ml)

Price: $34.99

Producer Domaine Castéra
Country France
Region Southwest France
Varietal Petit Manseng Gros Manseng
Vintage 2018
Sku 65726
Size 750ml

Domaine Castéra Description

Domaine Castéra was purchased in 1895 by the Lihour family. It was devoted to polyculture and cattle until 1995 when Christian Lihour focused on wine production. His son Franck took over in 2014.

A while back, Pascaline Lepeltier (she is a MAJOR Badass Sommelier and Force of Nature) posted on Instagram that if it weren’t for Chenin, her true love would be Manseng. She tagged the post #mansengmansengmanseng.

It’s not hyperbole. Manseng and Chenin are built like siblings, often with dizzying tartness and a phenolic core that sets them apart from other French whites. They excel whether vinified dry or sweet and one of the two Mansengs, Petit, has Savagnin as a parent in common with Chenin.

Jurançon is the only appellation almost solely and brilliantly devoted to Manseng. Its history for great dry whites, in yet a further parallel with Chenin, is contemporary, just like it is in Anjou Noir.

Franck Lihour is a relative newcomer—his first vintage was 2014. But in this short amount of time, he has lifted his family’s estate, Domaine Castera, into the pinnacle of Jurançon producers. His two single-vineyard bottlings, Tauzy (dry) and Caubeigt (off-dry), are two of the most energizing wines Wasserman represents.

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