2017 Foreau Vouvray Sec
Immediately from the corkpull this smells like nostalgia. What Vouvray/Touraine used to taste like before the Sun God burned everything. So nice. Pale lemon citrus and chalk, fresh. With air comes more golden fruit and layered textures, but always fine and linear. This is my kind of Vouvray.
2014 Foreau Vouvray Sec
More old-timey Vouvray scents, but a bit more leaning on the golden ginger apple malic side of things, which is not my favorite. Delicious with chèvre quiche and certainly a fine drink, but not as exciting to me as the bottle of the 17.
2020 Domaine aux Moines Savennières Roche aux Moines
I heard reports that the winemaking had been modernized… and they were true. So unlike the rusty wines of the 90s. Juicy ripe golden fruit befitting a modern RAM, but still light lithe and ‘fresh’. The deepest recesses of my chenin brain probably lean towards the Touraine examples mentioned above, but if I have to move west, this pushes my buttons.
2005 Louis Boillot Gevrey Chambertin Champonnet
Corked. God dammit! Nothing like lovingly keeping a bottle for all these years, babying it through a couple of moves, and then watching it all week while standing upright in preparation for decanting off sediment, to then find it completely worthless!
Also, last week I had a small dinner party and started with a NV Gatinois Tradition Brut which is such a delicious wine. Right from the beginning it is friendly fresh and elegant, enough body to be generous, enough detail to be refined, and such easy pleasure. What a way to treat non-wine-geek guests. With the main course our 2012 ESJ Fenaughty Syrah was the evolved smoky dark yet fresh syrah it was supposed to be. And then, my non-wine-geek friend pulls out a bottle of 2021 Elvio Tintero Bianco which was such a refreshing joy. Light and playful, it danced across the palate with bright succulent flowers, a bit of spritz, and I think it retails for less than $15. KLWM (and my friend) did something right on this one.