Champalou Vouvray 2015

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2015

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750ML

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Winemaker Notes

The Champalou house style produces wines of great elegance and tenderness, highly aromatic with impeccable balance.

The freshness and delicate aromas of the wine make it a perfect partner with grilled fish and white meats, shellfish, roasted vegetables and oriental food. When young, this is also a first-rate aperitif wine.

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  • 91
    Fresh and easy to drink, the well-balanced 2015 Champalou Vouvray offers a great opportunity for the uninitiated wine drinker to get a taste of the Loire Valley. This wine shows excellent aromas and flavors of tart citrus, dried herbs, and delicate flowers. The crisp, mostly-dry finish pairs it nicely with simply prepared poultry. (Tasted: February 27, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
  • 91
    Sleek pear, green apple and green plum notes race through this enticing white, backed by a flash of quince on the finish, with a bright verbena edge. Drink now through 2024.
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Champalou, France
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Catherine and Didier Champalou both came from vigneron families, yet their mutual sense of independence prompted the couple to brave it on their own. Since starting the domaine in 1983, their label has become one of the most highly-acclaimed in the appellation. Vouvray is home to the noble Chenin Blanc, more commonly known as Pineau de la Loire in their part of the world. The Champalou family farms 21 hectares of vineyards, embracing sustainable farming while integrating the use of the lunar calendar. Their soils are rich, deep, and aerated though regular plowing. The Champalou house style produces wines of great elegance and tenderness, highly aromatic with impeccable balance. No one comes close to copying their distinct style.

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Unquestionably one of the most diverse grape varieties, Chenin Blanc can do it all. It shines in every style from bone dry to unctuously sweet, oaked or unoaked, still or sparkling and even as the base for fortified wines and spirits. Perhaps Chenin Blanc’s greatest asset is its ever-present acidity, maintained even under warm growing conditions. Somm Secret—Landing in South Africa in the mid 1800s, today the country has double the acreage of Chenin Blanc planted compared to France. There is also a new wave of dedicated producers committed to restoring old Chenin vines.

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An important white wine appellation in the Touraine and one of the top in all of the Loire, Vouvray uniquely specializes in a wide range of styles from dry to sweet, and still to sparkling, each with its own definitive character. Vouvray is almost always 100% Chenin blanc (however up to 5% Menu Pineau is theoretically allowed but not often used).

Vouvray is also the name of a pretty little town just east of Tours on the northern bank of the Loire—its vineyards surround it to the northeast. Houses and cellars are carved out of the local tuffeau, a chalky or sandy, fine-grained limestone. Vineyards inhabit clay and gravel topsoil over tuffeau on the plateau, the best of which have a slight slope with a southerly aspect.

Chenin blanc’s high acidity and natural adaptability allow it to produce a wide range of styles with enormous success. Styles under the Vouvray name include sparkling, both Brut and Demi-Sec and still: Sec (dry) and Tendre (off-dry) as well as Demi-Sec (noticeably sweet), Moelleux (very sweet) and Liquoreaux (botrytized). Most can age about five years but the best quality versions will continue to improve over decades.

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