Domaine Cauhapé Jurançon sec Geyser 2021

Domaine Cauhapé Jurançon sec Geyser is a dry white blending both Mansengs with Camaralet, one of the old Béarn varieties the estate has kept in the ground.

Jurançon lies in the foothills of the Pyrenees south west of Pau, where vines are trained high on wires to escape spring frost and the autumn is long enough to leave fruit hanging into winter. Domaine Cauhapé sits above Monein, where Henri Ramonteu built the estate up to some forty hectares of Gros Manseng and Petit Manseng on clay and silex. The dry foehn wind off Spain shrivels the berries on the vine rather than encouraging botrytis, so the sweet wines are made by passerillage, picked in successive passes from October through to January. Geyser is a dry cuvée rather than a late-picked one, taking Gros Manseng for structure and acidity, Petit Manseng for weight and Camaralet for its aromatic lift, and it is raised with lees contact to give texture without masking the varieties.

Dry, textural and firmly acidic, it suits shellfish, chicken with cream sauces and the sheep's milk cheeses of the Pyrenees; serve at 10 to 12 degrees.

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