Spring is in the air, and we're celebrating with a gorgeous four-bottle package that highlights everything you love about Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley, plus one.
Spring is in the air, and we're celebrating with a gorgeous four-bottle package that highlights everything you love about Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley, plus one. The first three wines are all from the Loire Valley, from areas that orbit the most famous Sauvignon Blanc producing region: Sancerre. You'll experience a uniquely delish experience in tasting through these wines because they're all so texturally different while retaining an electric vibrancy anyone who loves Sancerre will immediately find commonality with. Click on each link for more information, and scroll down for tasting notes on each of the wines!
2022 Domaine Couet Coteaux du Giennois Blanc
2022 Domaine de Reuilly Les Pierres Plates, Reuilly Blanc
2022 Prieuré de Saint-Céols Menetou-Salon 'Le Prieuré'
Next up, our plus one! We've heard from you Sancerre lovers out there, and one of the biggest requests we receive is for food-friendly, easy-to-drink, easy-to-love, mineral rosé from Provence that's not bubble-gummy or sweet. Enter Domaine la Blaque's Pierrevert Rosé from the Alps of Haute Provence.
2022 Domaine la Blaque Pierrevert Rosé "Tradition'
Tasting Notes:
2022 Domaine Couet Coteaux du Giennois Blanc. Overall, this Sauvignon Blanc is a gorgeous, everyday gem that’s immediately pleasurable and shows off the kind of freshness and minerality you wouldn’t necessarily expect from a bottle of this price point. You’ll find notes of ebullient, rounded citrus like grapefruit and lemon and a hint of quince and white flowers. It’s zesty on the palate with a mineral core and a clean, lingering finish that gives hints of gunflint and a craving for Parisian bistros.
2022 Domaine de Reuilly Les Pierres Plates, Reuilly Blanc. You might do a double take after your first sip of this mouthwatering blanc from Domaine de Reuilly and wonder, “Is this Chablis?” It is not Chardonnay from Chablis, but Sauvignon Blanc from the eastern slice of the Loire region! Like the best Burgundian Chardonnay, however, this Sauvignon Blanc serves to transmit its Reuilly-ness more than its Sauvignon Blanc-ness. Instead of tropical, heavily grassy notes, you get a lean, chiseled frame with hints of crushed rock and citrus. The limestone parcel where it originates is called “Les Pierres Plates”—the flat stones—which is filled with fossilized shells from the Kimmeridgian period, when France was covered by ocean. Where you find this soil in Chablis and parts of Champagne, you also find bone-dry, flinty, almost saline wines that are the soulmates of shellfish. Denis Jamain of Domaine de Reuilly farms organically and biodynamically, which allows this single-vineyard Sauvignon’s minéralité to sing its purest song.
—Tom Wolf
2022 Prieuré de Saint-Céols Menetou-Salon 'Le Prieuré'. This aromatic and non-grassy Sauvignon Blanc from Menetou-Salon is gorgeously rounded, mineral, and expressive. Bouncy notes of grapefruit and yellow citrus meet spiced apple and quince. As Dustin noted below, it is voluptuous, silky, and delicious. I should note as an aside, that this wine's fruit and rounded nature are beautifully balanced and *may* go down too quickly.
“I did a double take after my first sip of Joseph de Maistre’s scintillating Sauvignon Blanc from Menetou-Salon. This is from the Loire? My tasting notes included words like “silky” and “voluptuous.” While the hallmarks of Loire Sauvignon Blanc, like structure and minerality, are present, the level of ripeness and sheer deliciousness really stood out. An exciting debut from our newest Loire producer.”
—Dustin Soiseth, KLWM
2022 Domaine la Blaque Pierrevert Rosé "Tradition'. Aromas and flavors of red berries, like wild strawberries and raspberries, meet peach, citrus, white flowers, and traces of wild lavender and thyme. This breezy, mineral-laden, full-flavored rosé from Pierrevert will give you nothing but good vibes and aspirations for the south of France.