It is generous in the mouth with flavors of exotic fruits, vanilla, and a touch of freshly ground white pepper. Aromas of wet river rock and acacia honey draw you in to a complex bouquet offering mango, guava, and tropical fruits. The grapes come from a single 24-acre vineyard called Les Royeux after pressing a portion is fermented in 300-liter oak barrels and the rest is fermented in stainless steel tanks. Mégalithe is the winery’s icon wine, first produced in 1998 and designed to showcase Sauvignon Blanc’s ability to age elegantly. It measures approximately 32,000 square feet and offers a perfectly cool environment to age the estate’s wines. We have visited many wineries and tank rooms, but we have never seen a tank room set into a cave as big as the one owned by Saget La Perrière. Saget La Perrière Mégalithe Sancerre 2017.
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It is full bodied with bright but balanced acidity and flavors of acacia honey, tropical fruits, and apricot nectar. It has aromas of lemon blossom, wet slate, vanilla, and mandarin pith. This stunning Sauvignon Blanc from Sancerre is pale straw colored with gold highlights. Perfect as an aperitif and for late summer sipping.Īlphonse Mellot, a French tavern owner, began making wine to serve to his patrons in the nineteenth century and today winemaking is continued by nineteenth and twentieth generation descendants Alphonse XVIII and Alphonse XIX. It is straw colored in the glass with aromas of lemon pith, apricot, and pineapple with flavors of quince, mandarin, and white citrus blossoms. It is fermented in 5-year-old Burgundian oak barrels with native yeast and aged for twelve months in neutral oak. This wine is made from one hundred percent Chenin Blanc and is made using Biodynamic principles. The estate has 30 acres with 11 acres planted with Chenin Blanc vines. It is vibrant on the palate with flavors of tropical fruits and bright acidity in the finish.Ĭlau de Nell is located in Ambillou-Chateau in the Loire Valley wine region of Anjou. His Clos de La Bergerie has aromas of pineapple, grapefruit, and white acacia blossoms. When he returned, rather than agreeing with his family’s modern principles of grape farming he began reading about, learning, and implementing biodynamic farming. He attended Columbia University in NYC and worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan before coming back to his family’s estate. Nicolas Joly is one of the pioneers of the French biodynamic wine movement. Nicolas Joly 2018 Savennières Clos de La Bergerie.Here are seven whites from the Loire that are perfect to drink now. They are perfect for warm-weather drinking, but versions which see some oak are also nice with heavier fall dishes. Although both Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé have bold minerality, strong acidity and flavors of citrus and stone fruit, it is said that Sancerre wines are best drunk when young, while Pouilly-Fumé will age gracefully.Īny of these wines will go well with seafood dishes, roast pork or chicken, or salads with goat cheese. In addition to Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, which takes its name from the town of Pouilly-sur-Loire and the greyish color that the grapes take on near harvest ( fume is French for smoke), other appellations include Quincy, Reuilly, Touraine, and Menetou-Salon. Anjou, considered the birthplace of Chenin Blanc, is producing versions in a style that seems to fall somewhere between that of its two neighbors.Īlthough it had long been thought that Sauvignon Blanc originated in Bordeaux and migrated to the Loire, DNA analysis and historical documentation show that the reverse is true. The most well-known appellations for dry Chenin Blanc are Savenièrres, which turns out full bodied, ageable versions with strong minerality and apple and pear flavors, and Vouvray, whose still, dry Chenins have high acidity and tropical fruit flavors. Sixty percent of the vineyards in the region are sustainably or organically farmed, with many domains implementing biodynamic practices as well.Ĭhenin Blanc is made in a variety of styles including dry, sweet, and sparkling. The Val de Loire offers diverse terrain, soil types and climates within three large sub-regions and many appellations whose names give rise to the wines produced there, such as Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, the two best known for Sauvignon Blanc. Its fertile land that runs 174 miles eastward from the Atlantic Ocean is known for world class examples of Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc in addition to rosé and red wines. Named for the river that runs through it, which incidentally is France’s longest river, the Loire Valley is home to much more than medieval chateaus and grand royal estates.
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