2021 Chateau Changyu Moser family XV Cabernet Sauvignon Blanc de Noir Barrique

The Chateau Changyu Moser The wine is also bottled Mise en bouteille au château / Estate Bottled and it is the World's first and only Cabernet Sauvignon Blanc de Noir aged in French barriques!

The first years the wine was made in stainless steel and was without a doubt one of Changyu's bestsellers that from vintage 2017 they made a step-up and started maturing the Blanc de Noir Cabernet Sauvignon in barriques in oak and the result is a unique barrique-matured version of a white Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine has been aged for 12 months in French oak barrels. This gives it the harmony and complexity you would expect from a white wine. Lenz Moser familiar with old world wines wanted to make something similar to the Burgundian white wines, the Austrian (top) Grüner Veltiners and Chardonnays from all over the world: oily, lush, fruit-driven and with lots of exotic flavors, which linger in the mouth and aftertaste

The wine has a very pale color with a salmon-colored tinge. In the nose masses of fruit and only the slightest hint of fermentation aromas. Dry (only 1.7 g / l residual sugar) but it seems more by the exotic notes. The multitude of flavors is mainly because the berries are very small (warm days and cold nights keep the berries small with a lot of flavor). A mouthful of charming fruit.

FACT: In the Tab: Attachment you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will automatically send it to you when you order this wine. The wine is in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you come to pick up the wine you will also receive a nice discount.

Onno Kleyn - Volkskrant

"There are wine stories for which this column does not have enough space. And I have already wasted 21 words. Well, then: Austrian Lenz Moser, a winegrower without vineyards, became a partner at the Chinese Château Changyu 20 years ago, he tells me via Zoom. The aim of the company was to make top wine, but only Cabernet Sauvignon was planted on the 450 hectares of vineyards – the Chinese had no interest in white wine. Moser did. That is why there is now a white one, made from blue grapes, a 'blanc de noir'. The Helan Mountain Range 'barrique' is chicly matured on oak, floral, exotic, beautifully balanced. In any case, the wines are super chic, skillfully made, concentrated and elegant"

ABOUT NINGXIA

There are currently around 900 wineries in China (compared to Australia: 2,000 - USA: 7,100 - France: 27,000 - Austria: 6,500 - Germany: 6,500). Nearly 800,000 hectares are planted with vines, making China the sixth largest wine producing country in terms of area, producing around 13 million hectoliters of wine per year. Ningxia is located approximately 1,330 kilometers west of Beijing. It is situated in central-western China on the edge of the Gobi Desert and is fed by the Yellow River which originates in the clean and natural Tibetan Plateau. With the aridity of the land and longer hours of sunlight than normal during the growing season (around 3,000 - compared to Bordeaux's average of 2,052 hours), the berries are allowed to ripen fully, developing a full fruit character. The grapes have ideal growing conditions in the Helan Mountains, 1100 meters above sea level. The altitude and the desert with its hot daytime temperatures and cold nights help the wines to retain their freshness and this makes Chinese wines from this region very popular.