Domaine Joel Delaunay Touraine Gamay 2023

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Domaine Joel Delaunay Touraine Gamay

Region: Loire, France

Vintage: 2023

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Gamay

ABV: 12%

Ruby red in colour, this supple Gamay is dominated by aromas of ripe cherries, plums and floral notes. It has a soft texture on the palate and a spicy finish.

Domaine Joël Delaunay is situated on the bank of the Cher Valley, 50 kilometres east of Tours near the famous Château de Chenonceau. The soil is clay and silex (a mixture of flint and sand) and the training method is Guyot. The vineyards are planted with grass between the vines to control yields, and leaf thinning occurs in July to aid the ripening of the grapes.

Domaine Joël Delaunay is a family-owned estate in the Touraine AOC, currently run by fifth-generation owner Thierry Delaunay. Like his forward-thinking father Joël Delaunay, who insisted on estate bottling in 1970, Thierry is similarly pioneering and was the first Touraine producer to bottle under screwcap in 2004.