Vouvray
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Based just outside Tours, in the Touraine district of the Loire, the 2,000 ha small semi-continental Vouvray appellation covers a range of dry, through off-dry, sweet to sparkling styles. Its Chenin Blanc vineyards perched above chalky `tuffeau' cliffs give the wines vibrant acidity and a stony floral, at times waxy character.
Ideally, under perfect skies, the producers aim for Moelleux sweet wines, hand-harvest by `trie', often imbued with noble rot and rich with residual sugar.
A less successful season would deliver more demi-sec, sec and, if really tough, sparkling/mousseaux. Vinification is largely in large inert vessels, such as stainless-steel, old oak foudres and demi-muids. Malolactic fermentation is avoided.
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Vouvray, Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Bourillon Dorléans
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray Limited Stock
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Light-Medium Bodied,
Medium Dry,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
Ready, but will keep,
Organic (Not certified/in conversion),
Cork Closure,
13% alc.
"Fred Bourillon continues to deliver. This is reassuringly ripe but also restrained on the nose, with a nice lift of lanolin & stone-fruit aromas. The white peachy palate is fleshy, succulent almost thanks to a hot July, while the fine structure & minerally dryness would make it a fine ... MORE | ||||
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Vouvray Le Mont Sec, Gaston Huët
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray Limited Stock
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£ 21.00 |
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226.80
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Medium-Full Bodied,
Dry,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
For laying down,
Organic (Certified),
Biodynamic (Certified),
Cork Closure,
13% alc.
Sandy, lime-stones and clay soils underpin this scintillating wine, which compared to the weightier Clos du Bourg, seems more perfumed and ethereal. The nose pings with piercing lime flower notes, while the off-dry (9 grams RS) palate whistles through with a puckering lemon zestiness at a near ... MORE BBR Score: 20/20 | ||||
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Vouvray Clos du Bourg Sec, Gaston Huët
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray |
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£ 21.50 |
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232.20
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Full Bodied,
Dry,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
For laying down,
Organic (Certified),
Biodynamic (Certified),
Cork Closure,
13% alc.
From this excellent vintage for dry Chenin Blanc, a tangerine-dream of a wine that builds on a prime chalky vineyard location, vinified in a mix of cement cuves and old french oak, to give a zesty, orange blossom wine riven with immense purity, minerality and life, thanks surely to the application ... MORE BBR Score: 19/20 | ||||
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Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Sec, Gaston Huët
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray Limited Stock
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Full Bodied,
Dry,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
Ready, but will keep,
Organic (Certified),
Biodynamic (Certified),
Cork Closure,
12% alc.
Compared to the cool dense green stone of Le Mont, Haut Lieu higher up on the plateau is an altogether more facile terroir, iron rich and red. The Vouvray wines tend to be fruitier than the quivering Le Mont, yet deceptively so for Haut-Lieu ages just as well. Take this wine: the nose a ... MORE | ||||
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Vouvray Le Mont Sec, Gaston Huët
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray Limited Stock
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£ 25.80 |
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Full Bodied,
Dry,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
Ready, but will keep,
Organic (Certified),
Biodynamic (Certified),
Cork Closure,
12% alc.
Bizarre though it may sound, the initial whiff of this rare beauty spirited me to Epernay, to the cellars of Alfred Gratien in fact, to moment when they popped a bottle of their 1998 vintage, aged “sur-lattes” on their corks, not on bottle caps…that distinct smell of wild ... MORE | ||||
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Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux 1ere Trie, Huët
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray Limited Stock
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£ 58.75 |
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Full Bodied,
Sweet,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
Ready, but will improve,
Organic (Certified),
Biodynamic (Certified),
Cork Closure,
12.5% alc.
This 1996 Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux is a mesh of orange, lime peel, straw, brioche and hay even; on the palate the wine's 67 grams of residual sugar is sublimely integrated, balanced out by scintillatingly pure, another dead-ringer for Sauternes surely; one of the Loire's very best without a doubt. ... MORE | ||||
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Vouvray, Cuvée Constance Moelleux Dme. Huet
France » Loire » Touraine » Vouvray Limited Stock
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£ 119.00 |
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Full Bodied,
Medium Sweet,
White,
Chenin Blanc,
Ready, but will keep,
Organic (Certified),
Biodynamic (Certified),
Cork Closure,
12.5% alc.
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