Château Mirebeau: Tasting & Drinking
My experience with the white wine of Château Mirebeau is limited to the 2015 vintage, which showed a charmingly ripe character. It reminded me very much of a toned-down version of the wines of Alexandre Bain in Pouilly-Fumé, who favours harvesting late when the grapes are at the very earliest stage of botrytis infection, showing a pink-purple discolouration without any shrivelling or concentration. Wines made from fruit picked at this stage tends to show a sweet note reminiscent of apricot jam in place of the more usual flavours of Sauvignon Blanc. Whereas Les Héliotropes doesn’t seem to go this far, I did sense a ripe sweetness that suggested to me the fruit was heading in this direction when it was picked.
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