Serious Loire Chenin
A new wine for me. It was part of the Les Caves de Pyrene tasting I did on Thursday morning, and I brought the remaining 3/4 of a bottle home to study at length(!). It's a fantastically pure, fresh, intense Chenin of real appeal. It also goes very well with mature Cheddar cheese.
Frantz Saumon ‘Minérale +’ 2007 Montlouis, Loire
From a grower in conversion to organics, working with indigenous yeasts in large and small oak. Intriguing nose shows classic Chenin notes of herbs, apples, lemon and a faint hint of soft cheese. It’s really pure and focused. The palate is pure and minerally with broad, textured herby, appley fruit kept fresh with high acidity. It’s more-or-less dry, fresh, pure and linear, but with a rounded character that presumably is contributed by a bit of residual sugar. A lovely, precise wine with a long future ahead of it. 92/100 (Les Caves de Pyrene in the UK)
From a grower in conversion to organics, working with indigenous yeasts in large and small oak. Intriguing nose shows classic Chenin notes of herbs, apples, lemon and a faint hint of soft cheese. It’s really pure and focused. The palate is pure and minerally with broad, textured herby, appley fruit kept fresh with high acidity. It’s more-or-less dry, fresh, pure and linear, but with a rounded character that presumably is contributed by a bit of residual sugar. A lovely, precise wine with a long future ahead of it. 92/100 (Les Caves de Pyrene in the UK)
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Labels: Chenin Blanc, Loire, montlouis
5 Comments:
May I suggest reducing your (over-)usage of the adjective "serious"?
I like it as a descriptor - some wines are serious, some wines are non-serious. This one was serious. Is there a problem with this? It's like the term 'rock' - some wines rock, other wines don't. So a serious wine that rocks is a really really good one.
That is a fabulous, unshunnable Chenin. I remember tasting it out of an unlabelled wine. The price recently went up, sadly.
Sounds fantastic. I'm fairly sure I once tried a dry wine from this guy, which shone. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the cuvee though...
Hi Anon,
Was it the Montlouis sec Clos de Chenes? It is stunning, but needs to spend a while in the carafe.
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