Château Moutin Blanc AOC Graves, 2017

The Darriet family has owned Château Moutin at Portets in the Graves appellation for over 200 years. The Graves appellation, named after the gravelly stony soils, is renowned for producing some of the best white Bordeaux wines — wines with finesse and longevity. The tiny estate has one hectare of white grapes planted on Graves Mindel II type soils comprised of gravel from the Pyrénées, sand and clay. The 2017 is golden in colour with ripe peaches, nectarine, mango and cooked fruit aromas complemented by vanilla. It is smooth and elegant with good depth and a tantalizing citrus and mango finish. After maceration on skins, the grapes were pressed and the juice fermented in new and one-year-old French oak barrels. It remained in barrel on lees a further six to eight months.