2023 Les Champs Libres
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The 2023 Champs Libres offers up fantastic breadth and depth on the palate, with notes of fresh citrus fruit and white flowers. There’s an excellent textural quality to the 2023. It’s so layered and creamy, yet there’s vibrant acidity too, retaining the wine’s balance with the freshness driving through to the finish. The latest iteration of this stunning white from the Guinaudeau stable is as good as any in recent years. 13.5% alcohol. Blend: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
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Les Champs Libres 2023 is 100% Sauvignon Blanc. It erupts from the glass with a powerful perfume of lime and orange blossoms, leading to a core of fresh grapefruit, lemonade, pineapple, and aniseed, with a waft of wet pebbles. The medium-bodied palate is intense with wonderful tension, offering layers of mineral and citrus flavors, finishing with a tropical kick.
Lime and honeysuckle aromas here, as well as lemon rind. It has a medium to full body, a dense center-palate and crunchy fruit. It’s rich on the finish, yet remains vivid and long. 100% sauvignon blanc from Sancerre clone.
The Les Champs Libres 2023 Blanc is one of the white wines of the vintage. Exhaling aromas of lime blossom, spices, confit citrus, lemon oil and spring flowers, it’s chalky and concentrated with fleshy, structuring tannins and bright acids that segues into a long, saline and mineral finish. This is crafted from 100% Sancerrois massal selections of Sauvignon Blanc. Kudos!
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About the producer
The Société Civile du Ch. Lafleur is the collective name for the Guinaudeau family’s wines and estates. These are some of the Right Bank’s most famous wines, including Ch. Lafleur and Les Pensées in Pomerol, along with Les Perrières, Les Champs Libres and Ch. Grand Village in Fronsac.