The freedom of the Suite
Caprice
The movement outside the sequence: an Alvarinho from a single parcel at the edge of the forest, made in a reductive style and only in a few bottles.
Sound of CapriceAcoustic tasting (opens Spotify in a new window) To the vintagesIts role in the Suite
An idea, carried out with precision.
A suite lives from its set dances, and sometimes from a movement that steps out of line. The capriccio is such a movement: free in form, full of ideas and yet played with great precision. Stravinsky gave his Capriccio of 1929 exactly this blend of esprit and discipline. This is the place Caprice holds with us: a micro-cuvée outside the sequence, of equal standing beside our other wines.
It grows on C15, a small parcel at the edge of the forest with a sandy soil found nowhere else on the Domaine. This is where the Alvarinho stands, planted in 2019, so the vines are still young. In the cellar we make it in the reductive school of the great white Burgundies, with a lot of patience and little intervention. The result is a wine that tastes of flint and salt, and only as much of it as one small parcel gives. We open most of the bottles at the estate, for our guests.
Igor Stravinsky · Capriccio (1929) · 3rd movement
A TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM
Caprice is our creative exception – a wine that breaks classic rules to find a new, independent identity in Bordeaux.
In the glass
Flint, wet stone, salt.
Caprice smells of struck match and wet stone, with a salty trace and restrained yellow fruit. On the palate it is slender and cool, a taut acidity sets the tone, and the finish is long. An hour in the decanter takes the edge off the reduction; serve it well chilled, at 9 to 13 °C.
- Flint
- Wet stone
- Salty minerality
- Yellow fruit
- Grape variety
- 100% Alvarinho
- Origin
- parcel C15 at the edge of the forest, vines planted in 2019
- Soil
- sand, unlike any other parcel on the Domaine
- Ageing
- reductive, in the school of the great white Burgundies
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Serving
- 9–13 °C, an hour in the decanter
The evening for it
For an unhurried afternoon.
Oysters, raw prawns, seared scallops or a fish from the oven: Caprice calls for cooking with freshness and fine spice.
The vintages
One movement, played anew each year
Every vintage gets the time it needs in our cellar.
The repertoire
