Albert de Conti 'Cuvee des Conti' Bergerac Sec

A delicious blend with creamy Sauvignon Blanc spending eight months on the lees and a month in barriques for the Semillon, with a splash of Muscadelle on the side. Imagine waxy peaches and sweet cashews with a dash of ginger, cumin and white pepper. This is an excellent French white from the Dordogne. Serve with sauteed scallops, a warm seafood salad with chilli's and watercress or good old fish and chips!

The 52-hectare Chateau Tour des Gendres was founded 1925 and is situated at Ribagnac near Bergerac. The estate is run along organic and biodynamic lines (certified 2005) by the 3rd generation of the Conti family led by head winemaker, Luc de Conti. The hallmarks of the estate's wines are balance, power and freshness from vines grown on a mixture of limestone and clay soils. No additional sulphites are used and the wines are unfiltered. 

A wonderful character and a fine wine-maker, Luc de Conti’s exuberant wines reflect his personality. Luc is a true Vinarchiste, looking for purity and intensity, the maximum expression of the potential of the grapes. In the vineyard the soil is nourished with seaweed and silica treatments to encourage microbial activity. According to him the soil is lifeless (“a cadaver”) and it is a fifteen year process to rid the ground of pollutants. Manual picking and selection of ripe grapes is essential; on the top cuvées there are several tries in the vineyard, and the wine will only be released if it reaches the highest of standards. The blends will also change according to the physiological ripeness of the grapes.