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
