A new vintage of L'Enfant Sauvage is always released with great excitement. L'Enfant Sauvage is made from 100% Chardonnay grapes hand-harvested from our Brick Kiln and Sculpture Garden vineyards here in Bridgehampton.
The grapes are gently whole cluster-pressed, the juice settled overnight and then all new French oak barrels are filled to the top. The ambient/wild/spontaneous yeast kick in and the wine ferments. The secondary malo-lactic fermentation also happens spontaneously and we leave the wine on its lees with no topping until blending and bottling.
This release, our 2022 L'Enfant Sauvage, spent 16 months in all new barrels, followed by another 6 months in tank! The wine is delicious, elegant, satisfying, juicy, wild and complex! The 2018 L'Enfant Sauvage is a beautiful clear gold color and possesses, piercing flavors and aromas of apples, lemon curd, pears, just-baked brioche, vanilla, pineapple, brown baking spices and salty minerals. The wine is dry, medium-bodied, has balanced acidity, moderate alcohol...and a long, complex, persistent finish. The aromas and flavors are fairly intense and long-lasting yet there is restraint, elegance and finesse enrobed in the rich, barrel-fermented style.
358 cases were bottled.
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