Domaine de la Taille Aux Loups Brut Tradition
Non-Vintage Sparkling Wine
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3.8 Very Good
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750ML
ABV
12.5%
Features
Green Wine
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The Taille aux Loups Brut Tradition's fine texture and delicate and pure and fresh citrus and tropical fruit aromas and flavors make it a great pleasure to enjoy on any occasion.
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Wine & Spirits
Jacky Blot makes this wine from his old-vine fruit that’s not ripe enough to produce his Triple Zéro (recommended above). The rigorous selection of clean grapes and the winemaking process is similar, though this wine rests en tirage for 14 months, and is finished with a minimal dosage (usually about three grams). It has the same pale-limestone direction as Triple Zéro, with honeyed quince scents to fill it out, giving the wine a juicy feel. Refreshing and flavorful, this has a sense of purity that lasts.
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Wine Spectator
A rich, decadent sparkler, with a beautiful array of warm apple and lemon meringue expertly lined with seashell minerality and salty brine. The creamy palate is mouthfilling and veers just off-dry, enlivened by a zing of orange peel acidity and crushed stone. Expressive and balanced, with buttery brioche ringing on the full finish. Drink now through 2028.
A new star has emerged in the heart of the Loire Valley: he is Jacky Blot of Domaine de la Taille aux Loups, in Montlouis and Vouvray. Montlouis is located on the southern bank of the Loire, opposite Vouvray. Blot, originally a Loire wine broker by profession, acquired about 8 hectares of 50-75 year old vines in 1989. These prized, ancient parcels belonged to families that could no longer continue to cultivate the vines and so entrusted them to Blot and his team. Blot brought a passion and exacting determination to make wines of only the highest quality, well beyond the norm of the day. Now more than 25 years on, Blot is the acknowledged pioneer of the region and is credited with having taken Chenin Blanc to unprecedented heights of quality.
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