Description
Tasted by: (at Loire Valley, France, 28 Mar 2022)
Part of Loire 2021 white wines: vintage report and new releases
Drinking Window: 2023 – 2045
The rich and concentrated but still youthful 2021 Clos de Mosny has complex aromas of butter, honey and vanilla and is richly textured with a seamless balance. It has the potential to age for at least two decades. More than 30 years after starting from modest means, Jacky and Joëlle Blot have established the Domaine de la Taille aux Loups in Moutlouis as one of the great Loire domaines. Their son Jean-Philippe is now increasingly taking over the running of the domaine. Jacky’s passion is dry white Chenin vinified in barriques, with no residual sugar and no malolactic fermentation. Increasingly the accent is on single vineyard wines with their own character – wines of great purity that age brilliantly. Starting in the late 1980s with 7ha, the domaine now has more than 60ha mainly in Montlouis but with two parcels in Vouvray. The latest substantial acquisition was the Clos de Mosny, a 12ha, walled, south-facing vineyard in the southern part of the appellation, in autumn 2010. – 96 points, Decanter Magazine
- Certified organic
- 100% Chenin Blanc
- 40-50 year old vines
- South exposure
- Sand clay soil with lots of silex on pure limestone, 2-3 meters before hitting the limestone
- Indigenous yeasts
- Fermented and aged in barrel (20% new, 80% 1-4 year old barrels)
- Long slow open top fermentation without batonage.
- Minimal filtration
- No Malolactic
- Returned to stainless steel tank to rest before bottling