Testalonga - Baby Bandito Stay Brave 2022 (750ml) Pouilly-Fume

Testalonga - Baby Bandito Stay Brave 2022 (750ml) Pouilly-FumeStay Brave Chenin Testalonga Baby Bandito, skin contact fresh and unfined orange wine. fermented on the skins for 11 days before being pressed off into old oak Foudre and barrels. No yeast or other additives apart from a small amount of SO2 shortly before bottling. Ambient fermentation and 100% malolactic fermentation. Unfined and only lightly filtered Planted in 1981, bush vine (un trellised), farmed organically. This is a 1. 5ha block which was

one kilogram of ground chestnut ower was added and mixed into the mass

raspberries and mild spices

This is a supple yet generous wine with an excellent structure

This is tasty and easy to drink on its own

We refer to this as our “After Dinner” Champagne

The palate is supple and layered with exotic spices

the balance is perfect

Very good to be drunk young it develops into velvety softness with further ageing in bottle

yellow plums and a subtle gun flint smokiness with a long full bodied finish

Valencia orange and Meyer lemon flavors

transparent and shiny

without the corresponding alcohol and glycerol heft