$335.00
Every couple of decades La Coulee de Serrant will yield an off dry wine. 2022 is one such vintage. While there are 32 grams of residual sugar, this is more than balanced out with natural bitterness and tannic grip. The most powerful, long, intense of the range. In youth, it smells of fresh rain on stones, with hints of melon, stone fruit and pear skin. With age, it becomes a tea chest of bergamot, dried fruits, honey and dried flowers. The wines need a long spell in the decanter, a day is best if you can wait! An extra-ordinary wine that will outlive us all.
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Nicolas Joly Family
Anjou, Savennières, Loire
Le Clos de la Coulée de Serrant is a vineyard responsible for making the world’s most formidable Chenin Blancs, fine and elusive in youth, deeply complex and powerful with age. First planted by Cistercian Monks in the year 1130, it is a 7 ha walled vineyard on a very steep schist slope above the Loire River near Angers. There is virtually no topsoil, the vines cling to the crumbly schist rocks. It is one of just 3 French Appellations to have a Monopole, that is, a single vineyard that has its own appellation and is owned by one estate (along with the likes of DRC & Château-Grillet).
The wines are made according to biodynamic practices (since 1980) by the world’s foremost thinker, philosopher and practitioner of biodynamic wine farming,Nicolas Joly. The reputation of the estate, the man and the wines is unquestionable and needs little introduction. These are perhaps the world’s most important wines philosophically when it comes to understanding biodynamics and they are surely the most idiosyncratic Chenin Blancs in the world.
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