2022 Domaine de la Taille Aux Loups "Les Hauts de Husseau" Montlouis-sur-Loire
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Review Date: 05/2024The 2022 Montlouis-sur-Loire Les Hauts de Husseau hails from a site with vines between 80 and 110 years old. It’s a finely scented, silken style that provides a mellow sense of effortlessness on the mid-palate before it structures itself toward the close. The chalky nature of the soil provides a fine coating of texture and structure, which adds persistence and line. It finishes long, calm and focused, with notes redolent of pastry, ripe apple and chalky citrus. (RG)
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Review Date: 10/2024
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Jacky Blot discovered wine as a junior pâtissier while working at a restaurant in Paris in his younger days. Deciding to follow the winemaking track in life, he ultimately came to acquire the Domaine la Taille aux Loups in Montlouis sur Loire, some twenty years ago, and then added the Domaine de la Butte in Bourgueil to his portfolio. The two estates both reside along the Loire and perhaps do not have the same notoriety as their kissing cousins, Vouvray and Chinon. But what Jacky does is extremely special and his wines rival the quality levels of many of the region's more famous top producers. The Hauts de Husseau is 100% Chenin Blanc from vines 70+ years of age. It is the highest site in the appellation at about 200 meters. The vines are planted over clay and silex (flint) over pure limestone. All fermentation is with native yeasts, is done in barrel (20% new, the rest between 1 and 4 years) and there in no malolactic fermentation.
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Origin: Loire, France
Type/Varietal: Chenin Blanc
SKU: #1771769