Coteaux du Vendomois VV 2004 Patrice Colin
This is a 100% Chenin Blanc from the Loire. It's kind of an odd wine with a very distinctive wet cement or wet stone nose that definitely carries into the palate. Chalk, some flowers, honey pretty good acidity are all there. It's a good food wine and doesn't seem flawed in any way, but it really doesn't seem to come together somehow. It's worth tasting, though, just so when I hear people talk about rain on stones or wet cement aroma I know exactly what they're talking about.
Here is a write up from a British wine seller. I didn't get the peaches, melons etc, until I read the write up. But now that you mention it, they're also there.
http://www.cadmanfinewines.co.uk/WineDe ... c2d101054z
"Maison Colin's cellars, like many in the area, is located inside a cave. This part of the Touraine district, near the town of Vendôme, is strewn with chalk caverns; the result of rocks having been extracted from hillsides to build fences and houses. The caves were subsequently used as homes, and although they are too cold to live in by today's standards, they are great for making and storing wine.
Patrice Colin (the current owner), whose great-grandfather planted the estate's first vines here, practices traditional, environmentally-friendly farming methods, including returning all by-products such as pruned vines and grape skins to the earth. These methods are consistent with the standards of Terra Vitis - the trade organization in France which governs environmental wine farming.
Tasting Notes...
Elegant and delicate floral and mineral notes to the fore. Richly textured with honey and nutty nuances. Wonderful ripe core of sweet melon and peaches and apricots, kept in focus by a good cut of refreshing acidity."