Cosmos
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Cosmos

2024, red, 75cl

CHF 30.00

A featherlight, spicy Mondeuse born of a cool, damp vintage. Peppery and vivid, with real tannic grip despite its delicacy, and a fresh, direct finish that keeps the palate wide awake. Proof that even in a light year, Mondeuse never forgets to bring its spice box along...

Fact sheet
Country
France
Region
Savoie
Estate
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Type
Red
Vintage
2024
Grape(s)
Mondeuse
Body
Complex
Aging
Wood
Sweetness
Dry
Format
75cl
° alc
8.5%
More details...

Cosmos grows on Corentin Houillon's molasse and jet du quaternaire soils in Chautagne, terroir that gives Mondeuse a distinctive balance of freshness, breadth and character. The grapes are seventy percent destemmed and thirty percent left as whole clusters, fermenting for eighteen days before spending a full year in barrel. It is vinified entirely without additives, letting the vintage speak plainly through the glass.

2024 was a cool, humid growing season, and it left its mark clearly on this cuvée. Rather than the fuller, more structured Mondeuse of past vintages, this year's Cosmos comes in light and highly sapid, yet the wine has lost none of its spice. Coming in at a mere 8.5% alcohol, it remains direct and vibrant, carrying real tannic presence despite its delicacy, with a fresh, energetic finish. A surprising, free-spirited expression of Mondeuse that proves lightness and character are not mutually exclusive. A guaranteed crowd-pleaser, best served with charcuterie or a simple roast.

Best shared with the "open-minded"

Right in the middle of the more traditional classics and the more rock 'n' roll cuvées, here's a bottle that will broaden the horizons of your open-minded peers about natural wines, while pleasing both the avid discoverers and the most experienced drinkers. A bottle that brings everyone together...

Savoie, France

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Corentin

A familiar face, that of Corentin Houillon. From 2015 to 2018 he worked at Domaine de la Ville de Morges in the Canton of Vaud, where he quickly made a name for himself in the Swiss wine scene. Since 2019, he has been working on his own in neighbouring Savoie, taking over a 5-hectare estate where all the iconic grape varieties of the region, Altesse, Jacquère, Mondeuse, Gamay and Pinot Noir, are grown...

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