Domaine Malet Réserve Alain Malet 2014
Touraine AOP
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Domaine Malet’s standard Touraine Sauvignon is a delicious grapefruit white, yet this Réserve version is a real step up and a big step closer to the Sancerre style you find from vineyards next door. Flinty intensity and elegant laser-like minerality.
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Wine Details
- White - Dry
France- Pale green straw
- Sauvignon Blanc
- 9.375 Units
- 12.5% ABV
- 31 December 2017
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Rounded, citrus intensity with herbal, smoky complexity. Long
Aroma
Flinty, herbal, grassy, lemony
The Wine
Touraine lies on the east side of the Loire, close to Sancerre. No surprise then that the wines bear a close resemblance. For three generations the Malet family have grown top quality grapes on classic chalk and flint-rich soils to sell to other estates. However, in 2001 brothers Alain and Bruno Malet took control of the property and decided to start creating and bottling wine under their own name. They now make two levels of Sauvignon – standard Touraine, and their Réserve, using grapes from older vines so the wine has even greater concentration. Buyer Mark Hoddy was very taken with both. This Réserve has a smoky, flint, citrus and herbal aroma with stony, lemony intensity. A classic match with seafood or warm goat’s cheese and pear salad.
"Classic Loire elegance with real intensity in this superb Réserve white from the Malet brothers"
Mark Hoddy
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