Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor Cahors
750 mL
$17.66 each($0.70 / fl oz)
Victoria H‑E‑B plus!
6106 N. NAVARRO
Description
A floral, savory, peppery wine of refinement. Clean and fresh with dark plum fruit and more mineral qualities than barnyard. 100% Malbec from a single parcel in Cahors, France. Our thoughtful friend Didier Pelvillain is the winemaker, although we list his mother Odile Delpon on our label, as 32 years ago it was she who planted these vines. Odile inherited the family vineyards, tobacco farm, and saffron plantation in Albas in 1968. She developed the winery with her husband Claude until their son Didier took over a few decades ago. He expanded with a second domaine in nearby Preyssac in 2013. Total vineyards cover 52 hectares. Cahors once covered 48,000 hectares of vines, but after phylloxera has shrunk to 4,000 hectares. Known as the ‘black wine’ and well loved, Cahors was widely exported throughout Europe and the Middle East until phylloxera devastated the vineyards starting in 1865. Nowadays there is less wine made in Cahors, but generally the quality is much higher. For Didier, yields are much lower and grape selection is important. Soils here are clay and limestone. Didier farms at the highest level of sustainability and biodynamic conversion is in process. Only indigenous yeasts are used. “I like to go into vineyards on Sunday night when it is quiet, to smell the vineyard and think about the level of maturity”… This is intuitive wine making at its best.