Stephen Brook | Lovely nose, unmistakably Sauvignon, with a complex bouquet of grass, green apple, and grapefruit. Vibrant and very fresh. Good attack, lean, limpid, and precise, with fine acidity but not harshness, though there is a trace of bitterness that is bracing rather than disturbing. Balanced, long, dry, and suffused with gentle extract. | 92
Andrew Jefford | Pale gold. Clean, pure, sappy, and fresh; some muted lime, and a soft planty sweetness interwoven in the freshness. Delicate and attractive. A tiny reductive note, which may resolve with time in the bottle. On the palate, this is clean, fresh, pure, stony, and incisive, with a lovely percussive force to it which it’s hard not to associate with its “mineral” identity; the aftertaste, too, seems mineral-salty, bicarbonate. The fruit really does take second place here and plays a passive-supportive role to the subtle but dominant acidity and “otherness” we call mineral. | 91
Stephan Reinhardt | This white-yellow wine has a very fine but intense bouquet of white fruits intertwined with finely flinty notes of crushed stones. On the palate, this is a dense and racy, firmly structured and persistent Mont Damnés, in a lean and elegant but classically structured style. Excellent but still very young. Keep it for at least three or four years. | 92
Details
Wine expert | Andrew Jefford Stephen Brook Stephan Reinhardt |
Tastings year | 2019 |
Region | Loire |
Appellation | AOC |
% Alcohol By Volume | 13.5 |