Vanessa

9.5

Let’s talk about SAVENNIÈRES!!!! 📣📣

Savennières is a small but mighty appellation (AOC), located in the Anjou subregion of the Loire Valley, France and specializes in still, dry Chenin Blanc wines. 🇫🇷

Its growing environment is apt for producing concentrated and ripe fruit, translating into wines with strong aromatic and flavor intensity and higher alcohol potential. 💪🏻 It’s no wonder this appellation is all about Chenin Blanc; Chenin has naturally higher acidity, which can help lend structure and balance to the final wine. ⚖️ 🙌🏻🙌🏻

The combination of these factors sets the stage for winemakers to produce some truly powerful and age-worthy whites that can improve, gaining complexity (and softening) with some time in the bottle. 🤔 🧐 Savennières has a reputation as a more serious, cerebral wine that is meant to be savored, especially when paired with a creamy seafood dish like Coquilles Saint-Jacques! 😋 🥘

🌿This particular wine is the Nicolas Joly, Clos de la Coulée de Serrant AOC (2019) hailing from the prized enclave of Coulée de Serrant AOC (within Savennières AOC), owned exclusively and farmed biodynamically by the renowned Nicolas Joly.

This wine is surely capable of aging for decades but tonight we opted to sip this golden wine during the golden hour with unseasonably warm, summery temperatures here in Minnesota.

🐝 🍯 In the glass, we found concentrated, layered notes of honey, beeswax, yellow apple, ripe apricot, quince, chamomile, dried & crushed white rose petals, toasted almond, hazelnut, cinnamon stick, nutmeg, acrylic paint, wet stones, salted caramel, & butterscotch.

It has texture (and finish) for days and a coating mouthfeel.

🫣 Its alcohol by volume clocks in at 15%!!! But it’s well-integrated and balanced by a crisp acidity and robust aromas and flavors. 👌 — 8 days ago

with Deked1

Linsay Craten

10

Amazing bottle, great year — 8 months ago

Enrico

9.2

Vanilla, grassy, well balanced, citrusy — 2 years ago

romo

9.1

Way better than the Riesling. — 5 years ago

Todd Stone

9.0

Darker yellow than typical Chablis; good nose of wet grass and lighter fruit with some oak. Very smooth but much more of a Chardonnay taste than Chablis; a touch buttery, apple & pear flavor- a full bodied white. — 5 years ago

with Gordon

Laura Snider

9.2

Dry; savory. Medium effervescence — 6 years ago

Jan A

9.3

Muddy. The new vintages are going for 200-225€ per bottle these days if you are ordering from online retail I see. I know that these are the prices these days for Burgundy and this is Perrieres, but tbh, I think this is way overpriced. — a month ago

Brian Hearty

9.1

2022. Our sommelier knew that we have enjoyed several different Chenin Blanc wines with the food at The Oven and poured me a taste of this wine from an opened bottle. Beautiful aromas of apple/apple cider/blossoms. High acidity and medium body. — 5 months ago

Helen Arvanitopoulos

9.2

Oh my. This was the most purest drinking burgundy I have had in a very long time. This felt like the most beautiful wine that was running down my throat. My friend and I were absolutely in awe at the red fruits the freshness of the red cherries. No wonder it’s a premier cru. Amazing. Can’t wait to get another one — 8 months ago

Tom Heckert

9.0

Straw colored, apple and citrus fruit forward nose. Smooth finish and food friendly. — a year ago

with Rob

David Coun

9.1

Full, complex, delicious — 4 years ago

Jason Sliwa

9.3

Wonderful wine from a favorite producer. Always a delight. — 5 years ago

Gor

9.2

Clear, medium gold with nice with nice unncharacteristic legs given away high alcohol content for a Riesling. Nose of medium+ intensity, primary, developing. Honeysuckle, peach and hint of melon on the nose. Off dry palate with high acidity offsetting the medium+ body. Leads to a medium+ finish. Juicy, concentrated and flavorful now but should develop some interesting secondary notes adding to complexity down the line. — 6 years ago

Ross Bathgate

9.3

Surprisingly dark and mature due to cork at only 12 years of age. Delightful wine pushing almost to Pinot Gris depth and fruit — 4 months ago

Turd Ferguson

9.3

Drinks like a GG. Light golden color. Dry-ish, def some RS. Herbs and flowers. Touch of bitterness. Faintest petrol at this young age. Pretty darn good.  — 5 months ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.2

This half bottle showed more advanced than the one I had a year ago. Oxidation notes are starting to emerge. Still quite enjoyable though, medium to fullbodied palate, oozing hot buttered popcorn, nectarine and mandarin. Hints of baked apples, honeyed hazelnuts and brown spices on the nose. — 5 months ago

Conrad Green

9.2

From mag. Bright and defined. Apple and citrus. Limestone and hints of floral notes. Very good — a year ago

with Bex

web bond

9.2

Albert Mann Schlossberg Grand Cru Riesling 2019 — 3 years ago

Stephanie Hui

9.0

Quite nice and a good price — 5 years ago

Serena Wu

8.9

Went great with the smoked fish app. — 6 years ago