Paul Giraud Napoleon 15 yrs 40% 700ml Size::1 Bottle sweet pastry and candied lemon

sweet pastry and candied lemon

On the cool uplands of northern Provence

With low yielding vines hand harvesting barrel fermentation with wild yeast and extended maturation on lees the meticulous care taken by our viticulture and winemaking teams is evident

The complex flavours linger thanks to a long

Superb concentration and purity and pleasantly layered flesh

Paul Giraud Napoleon 15 yrs 40% 700ml Size::1 Bottle sweet pastry and candied lemonFor the aging of Napoleon, we only use 25% new barrel. Certainly, the new barrel brings two essential things: the colour and the woody tannins. But the very delicate aromas of vine flowers (comparable to acacia or elderflower) cannot stand to be masked by an excess of tannin, thus the use of less new oak. Further, we find a little acidity and freshness, as if we were crunching a grape during the grape harvest. Napoleon is the olfactory memory of white