Vouvray Brut

France
Loire
2019

100% Chenin Blanc. Pinon makes two traditional-method sparkling wines, from bunches picked earlier than for the still wines and from the more clay and flint-forward parcels. The vines average 45 years old and have been certified-organic since 2007. Fruit for the brut is picked a little less ripe than that for the non-dosé. The hand-harvested bunches are rigorously sorted and gently and slowly pressed, with the juice flowing by gravity into underground tanks. Fermentation is spontaneous with indigenous yeasts and lasts 4 to 6 weeks. The wine is racked into old tonneaux and steel tanks for 2-3 months of aging on the fine lees. It is then lightly filtered and bottled for its second fermentation; the wine remains on the lees for 3 years before disgorgement and receives a 6-gram dosage. The 2019 finished with 8 grams RS and 4.5 grams of acidity.

 

92 points
"I also had the pleasure to taste Marc Ollivier’s 2019 vintage of Monnières- Saint Fiacre a year ago and was delighted to have another opportunity to revisit this magical wine. As I have mentioned in the past, Marc only began bottling this wine on its own and labeling it as MonnièresSaint Fiacre in the 2013 vintage, though it had occasionally found its way into bottle as a solo effort prior to 2013, when Marc would label it as Cuvée Eden. The 2019 Monnières- Saint Fiacre is utterly brilliant on both the nose and palate, offering up a complex bouquet of tart orange, bread fruit, a gorgeously complex base of stony minerality, lovely leesy tones, citrus blossoms and a topnote of ocean breeze. On the palate the wine is deep, pure, focused and complex, with a full- 100 bodied format that revels in its mineral drive, superb core of fruit, lovely leesy amplitude, a superb girdle of acidity and laser-like precision on the very, very long, complex and vibrant finish. This is stunning young Muscadet! 2024-2065. "
John Gilman,
View From The Cellar
July 2024

SKU/Code: 
DB8928-19
Product Line: 
Wine
Sparkling
Sparkling White
Varietal: 
Chenin Blanc
Farming Type: 
Organic