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Jean-Francois Merieau Touraine Sauvignon les Arpents des Vaudons

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$11.95

Year: 2007
Region: Loire Valley
Country: France
Wine Advocate: 88
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"The 2007 Touraine Sauvignon Les Arpents des Vaudons smells of mint, dill, lime, and caraway. With a notably rich texture on the palate for its genre, yet refreshing citricity, and prominently chalky, saline mineral notes, this comes off rather like a Touraine Margarita. Long and luscious, this represents a triumph in the context of its vintage.

Jean-Francois Merieau is clearly a major Touraine talent, and the fact that his numerous wines bear some of the most striking and delightful new labels I have encountered in a long time should help draw wine lovers’ attention. Predictably, the two standouts from my recent tasting were Merieau’s bottlings of Sauvignon and Malbec (a.k.a. Cot)." (WA)

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One of the new stars of the Loire, Jean-Francois Merieau is as ambitious as they come. Before coming back to settle at his family’s property in the Touraine just east of Tours, he wandered the world tasting wine and spent time working at several wineries outside of France including an extended stay in South Africa. It was this exposure that drives him today.

Instead of blending his wines, Jean-Francois produces most of the varietals with which he works in single varietal bottlings, often from a single parcel. This terroir-specifi c approach allows us to taste singular wines of great expression. He is converting the entire production to organic viticulture. The area around the old French city of Tours in the Loire Valley is called the “Garden of France”, a fertile, verdant area which is home to vines and fruit trees alike. It is also the area that was liked so much by French royalty and aristocrats that they built many castles along the river (think Chambord and Chenonceau) to name a couple.

While the geographic region of Touraine includes the famous vineyards of Vouvray, Montlouis, and Chinon, there is also an AOC Touraine which produces white, red, and sparkling wines. Touraine is one of the few places in France that allows wine varietals to be placed on the front label. For white grapes, Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, and Chardonnay are principally grown and are as often blended as they are vinifi ed separately. For red wines, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Cot (the local name for Malbec) and Pineau d’Aunis (an indigenous varietal) are planted. The sparkling wine of the zone is often based around Chenin Blanc with Chardonnay and/or Sauvignon Blanc added to added complexity.

100% Sauvignon Blanc from a single parcel of old vines (60 years old). Harvested by hand, fermented and aged in stainless steel tank for 7 months. Some lees stirring.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 30 October, 2008.

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