The 2022 Vouvray "le Petit Clos" from Monsieur Fouquet is a lovely wine that seems to hover between Sec and Demi-Sec in style in this vintage, as it comes in at 12.5 percent octane, but seems to carry just a touch more residual sugar on the palate than the lovely le Marigny bottling. The bouquet is deep and complex, offering up scents of sweet quince, a touch of pineapple, a refined base of chalky soil, lemon peel, incipient notes of honeycomb and a lovely topnote of orange blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with superb depth at the core, lovely soil reflection and grip, zesty acids and just a kiss of sweetness on the attack. The finish is long, beautifully balanced and vibrant. This is another excellent example of the lovely 2022 vintage in Vouvray.

Heady, honeyed floral fragrance of mimosa and linden, as heavy as a summer afternoon drenched in sleepy light. Soft bitterness, soapy lanolin, sudsy layers. Rich and waxy smooth, warm-wax sensual, baked pears and quince drenched in the honeyed blossoms and somnolent sunlight that the wine promises on the nose. (TC)