Loire Whites Flashcards
Key wines and styles of Domaine Huet
Location: Vouvray
Focus: White wines, single vineyards, dry to sweet
Main wines: Le Mont, Clos du Bourg, Le Haut Lieu, Cuvee Constance (Botrytis, blend, top years only)
Key wines and styles of Domaine Didier Dagueneau
Location: Pouilly Fume, Sancerre
Focus: White wines, dry, Cigare barrels (shaped for extra lees contact)
Main wines: PF - Blanc Fume de Pouilly, Silex, Buisson Renard, Pur Sang, Asteroid (ungrafted vines)
Sancerre - Mont Damnes
Jurancon - Jardins de Babylon
Key wines and styles of Domaine Guiberteau
Location: Saumur
Focus: Whites and Reds from Saumur, Organic, uses barriques
Main wines: Whites - Clos de Carmes, Breze
Reds: Les Arboises (18 month new barrels)
Key wines and styles of Nicolas Joly
Location: Savennieres
Focus: White wines, ripe styles, Biodynamic, uses old Barriques
Main wines: Clos de la Coulee de Serrant (Monopole)
Le Vieux Clos Blanc
Clos de la Bergerie Roche aux Moines
Key wines and styles of Domaine Francois Chidaine
Location: Montlouis, Vouvray
Focus: White wines, Biodynamic, Vouvray labelled VdF (no winery in Vouvray)
Main wines: Montlouis - Clos de Breuil, Les Bournais, Clos Habert
Vouvray - Baudoin, Bouchet
Key wines and styles of Domaine Francois Cotat/Domaine Pascal Cotat
Location: Sancerre
Focus: No chemicals, extra ripeness, indigenous yeast, sometimes RS
Main wines: Le Grand Cotes, Mont Damnes, Cul de Beaujeau, Cuvee Paul (Late harvest, select vintages)
Key wines and styles of Domaines des Beaumard
Location: Savennières, Quarts de Chaume, Coteaux du Layon, Anjou
Focus: Screwcap, sued over cryoextraction permissions in QdC, wide spaced high trellises (Vignes Hautes et Larges), no wood
Main wines: Savennieres, Clos du Papillon Savennieres, Quarts de Chaumes, Coteaux du Layon
Key wines and styles of Thibaud Boudignon
Location: Savennieres, Anjou
Focus: White Savennieres in Oak, Anjou Blanc and Rose
Main wines: Clos de la Hutte, Vignes Sandrees - Both Savennieres
Key wines and styles of Edmond et Anne Vatan
Location: Sancerre
Focus: White and Red Clos La Neore, low yield, late picked, steep slopes on Mont Damnes, ageworthy
Main wines: Clos La Neore Blanc and Rouge Sancerre
Key wines and styles of Vignobles de L’Ecu (Guy Bossard)
Location: Muscadet
Focus: White (Now some VdF reds as well), biodynamic, wines made from different soils and old vines
Main wines: Gneiss, Orthogneiss, Granite, Taurus
Key wines and styles of Domaine du Clos Naudin
Location: Vouvray
Focus: Relatives of Huet, barrel fermentation (old)
Main wines: All styles of Vouvray, Goutte d’Or produced in top years
Key wines and styles of Domaine du Colliere
Location: Saumur
Focus: Old vine Blanc and Rouge Saumur Single vineyards
Main wines: La Charpentrie, La Ripaille (Both White and Red versions)
Key wines and styles of Domaine de la Papiere
Location: Muscadet
Focus: Mucadets from different sub regions
Main wines: Clisson, Ch Thibaud, Gorges, Monnieres St Fiecre
Key wines and styles of Alphonse Mellot
Location: Sancerre
Focus: White and red, biodynamic, new oak for reds, long lees ageing for whites
Main wines: La Moussieres, Generation XIX, Edmund (White only) La Demoiselles (Red only) En Grand Champs (Red only)
Key wines and styles of Domaine de Belliviere
Location: Jasniere, Coteau du Loir
Focus: Biodynamic, natural, RS may change as per vintage
Main wines: Jasnieres - Calligramme, Les Rosieres
Coteau du Loir Blanc - Effraie, Haut Rasnee
Coteau du Loir Rouge - Hommage a Louis Derre
Key wines and styles of Domaines aux Moines
Location: Savennieres, Anjou
Focus: Organic, powerful whites
Main wines: Roche aux Moines - Cuvee des Nonnes, Cuvee de L’Abesse
Anjou Villages Rouge
Key wines and styles of Gerard Boulay
Location: Sancerre
Focus: White, single vineyard, no sulphur sprays, low sulphur winemaking
Main wines: Clos de Beaujeu, Mont Damnes, Comtesse, La Cote
Key wines and styles of Ferme de la Sansonnieres (Mark Angeli)
Location: Anjou
Focus: VdF wines, biodynamic, long lees ageing, sulphur from Mt Etna
Main wines: Whites: Le Lunes (Amphorae as well) Vielles Vignes des Blanderies
Rose: Rose d’un Jour
Red: Les Gelinettes (Grolleau)
Key wines and styles of Lucien Crochet
Location: Sancerre
Focus: Whites and solid red, modern and organic
Main wines: Le Chene Marchand, La Croix du Roy, Vendange du 7 Oct (Late Harvest SB in select years)
Key wines and styles of Domaine du Closel (Chateau des Vaults)
Location: Savennieres
Focus: Biodynamic, Used barrique fermentation & battonage, native yeast. Tiff with Joly
Main wines: Clos du Papillon, La Jalousie
Key wines and styles of Domaine des Grand Mouton
Location: Muscadet Sevre et Maine
Focus: started as group of 8 producers, organic, hand harvested, no stirring, unfiltered
Main wines: Carte Noir, Grand Mouton, Cuvee One (All Sur Lie)
Key wines and styles of Domaine Pinon (Francois et Julien)
Location: Vouvray
Focus: White and Sparkling of all sweetness levels, organic
Main wines: Vouvray Silex Noir, Trois Argilles, Les Deronnieres
Key wines and styles of Domaines Landron
Location: Muscadet de Sevre et Maine
Focus: Biodynamic, natural yeast
Main wines: La Fiefs du Breil, Les Houx
Key wines and styles of Clos Rougeard
Location: Saumur Champigny
Focus: Long ageing, late release
Main wines: Les Clos, Les Poyeaux, Les Bourg
White: Breze
