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Home : Les Rouannieres, Coteaux du Layon Beaulieu |
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| Les Rouannieres, Coteaux du Layon Beaulieu 1999 |  |
Winery: Chateau Pierre Bise
Sub-Region: Anjou and the Layon valley
Varietal: Chenin Blanc
Best Drinking: 2005 to 2015
Drink with: fresh apricots, peaches and nectarines; hard cheeses
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Wine background
The quietly intellectual Claude Papin, whose winemaking practices and philosophy are very close to those of the leading Alsace growers Jean-Michel Deiss and Leonard and Olivier Zind-Humbrecht, is the Central Loire's 'pope' of 'terroir'. This extraordinary Gamay was grown on the volcanic rock soil locally called spilite, and produced a low yield of 35hl/ha. It was late-harvested, says Papin, 'when the skin began to shrivel'. Papinýs belief is that in the Loire Valley Chenin Blanc 'only expresses itself by botrytisation. If there is none, the wine is always more or less hard. Even my dry wines are made with at least 50% of botrytised grapes'. This sweet wine is made with exclusively botrytised grapes.
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| Andrew Jefford Feb 09 2001 Rating: 92 out of 100 | Still green-gold at this stage of its evolution, the wine has fresh, elegant lime-flower (linden) aromas. In the mouth it is dense, strong, almost fiery, saturated with sugar and glycerol, yet balanced by fine and sustained acidity. The apple, grape and pineapple flavours need time to settle and marry; the density and power of the wine promises a long evolutionary trajectory. |
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