Domaine L&R Kox, Cabernet Blanc 2023 (750ml)

AOP Luxembourg “Cabernet Blanc” 2023

VARIETY: Cabernet Blanc

FOOD PAIRINGS: Apéritif, carpaccio of scallops marinated with lime, smoked salmon mousse, amuses-bouche.

TERROIR: The first hybrid variety to be in planted in Luxembourg and at the Kox domain in 2010 was the Cabernet Blanc, a variety resulting from a complex crossbreeding containing resilience capacities with Cab Sauv, Silvaner, Riesling and Chancellor. Since then, three vineyards have been planted with this new variety. No herbicides or pesticides, only natural treatments administered by a drone.

(Over the last twenty years, a Swiss grape breeder, Valentin Blattner, has created new varieties which need less or no treatment at all against these fungal diseases. In order to do so, he crosses a variety of Vitis vinifera known for being flavourful, with wild varieties often less productive or yielding a wine of mediocre quality but resilient against vineyard diseases. After a long period of observation and selection, this crossbreeding results in new hybrid varieties with strong resilience characteristics while at the same time yielding a wine with a good tasting quality. Known by the name of "PIWI" (PIlzWIderstandsfähig = fungus resistant).

HARVEST: hand picked

VINIFICATION: Sans sulfites. Fermented and aged in stainless.