High Quality Unlimited Wine

Ski Power are proud to provide high quality wines to our guests in all of our properties. In our chalets unlimited free wines are provided as below. In our hotels you can also elect for this service through pre-booking it once you have booked.

Red Wines - Chateaux Gayon
Built in XVIII century on the low-lying ground on the right edge of the Garonne in the Vineyards of Bordeaux near Langon you will find our Chateau Gayon. It has been the Crampes' Residence for many generations. In 1903 the great grand father was just a farmer in the chateau. Over a hundred years later the Crampes' Family is still there.
Chateaux Gayon Bordeaux Superieur wines are produced using traditional methods, matured in staved oak barrels and bottled in the château, on the property.
	Wine making: In stainless steel tanks, maceration after 10 to 15 days of fermentation. Ageing : The wine is clarified and barrelled around February. The barrel ageing is done in a traditional way (racking, topping up) and is the reflection of the Chateaux and families savoir-faire. The marriage of wine, oak and oxygen makes the wine evolve gently. Soils: clay and limestone Vines varieties: 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet-Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet-Franc
Jean Crampes is now well known to Ski Power and visits us in the mountains at least once a year during the winter. If you're lucky you will catch him around and he can give you the full history and detail of his winemaking expertise, allowing you to enjoy his wines with even more knowledge of their propriety.

White Wines - Chablisienne Saint Bris
	Since 1923 at Chablis in Burgundy, the meticulous care of the vine-growers working together under the banner of La Chablisienne has given birth to wines whose magnificence is amplified by the passage of time. These wines, coming from a mosaic of "cimats", or vineyard plots, provide a pallet of emotions marked with a truly mineral touch.
This notion of minerality in wine is difficult to define. It concerns olfactory sensations (flinty aromas), gustatory sensations (freshness) and texture (crystal-clear wine). Inherent to the kimmeridgian subsoil, this mineral sensation is an integral part of our wines. It gives emotions and little by little, sip by sip, it reveals its style. Minerality, sensations, emotions. But this is not for us to say, who better to comment than David Delaye, the wine maker of La Chablisienne: "Minerality can concern so many different sensations that it is almost impossible to define. Inside the Chablis vineyard itself, there are many different expressions of minerality... Nevertheless, we can arbitrarily choose two angles to tackle the question."

The mineral aromas. It is by far, the easiest approach and often the only one proposed. We consider the following aromas as mineral: gun-flint, flint, iodine, chalk, oysters, shellfish... For me one experience illustrates perfectly what is minerality, this is what you feel before a thunderstorm of a hot and dry summer day just when the first big drops of rain are falling down. Minerality is a tactile sensation. The sensation of minerality is not only a perception of flavours and can't either be reduced to acidity. It structures the mouth and gives it distinction and character. At La Chablisienne, we often use the words "tension" and "energy". Then minerality also evokes a certain form of purity, a crystal-clear appearance of the wine.

Ski Power are delighted to work alongside wine making experts like David. We know that the wines produced for your experience in our chalets will be so much better as a result.

Video Link - The picking and making of Chablissienne wines