2019 Le Nardian 75CL

Bordeaux

₱3,250
Unit price per

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Wine Rating: RP 89 points
Drink by: 2021 - 2025

Offering up aromas of apricots, musky peaches, clear honey and spices, the 2019 Le Nardian is medium to full-bodied, glossy and exotic, with a fleshy core of fruit and a perfumed finish, it's a ripe, rather unctuous wine more reminiscent of a hypothetical Jurancon-Northern Rhône hybrid than typical white Bordeaux.

Le Nardian is the product of a wager between the now-retired Consulting Oenologue, Gilles Pauquet (also consultant to Châteaux Cheval Blanc, Figeac, and Canon), and Jonathan Maltus that a low cropped white would see similar benefits to a red wine. The first wine was produced in 2000, and it continues to sell out.

Le Nardian is an atypical Bordeaux dry white wine made up of 40% Sauvignon Blanc, 40% Semillon, and 20% Muscadelle. The vines are situated on a perfect clay-over-limestone soil/terroir just south of the Dordogne River, at the village of Lugaignac. The aspect is a full-on south facing slope.