Domaine de Pallus Chinon Les Pensees de Pallus 2015
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The dark ruby-colored 2015 Chinon Les Pensées de Pallus opens with a slightly reductive but generous and herbal-scented bouquet of ripe dark and red fruits as well as leather aromas. The attack on the palate is soft, smooth and silky, wonderfully sweet and round, and the wine shows a persistent tannin and acidity structure. The finish on this Cabernet Franc is very long and intense, and the overall impression is a very delicate, well-balanced yet ripe and concentrated Chinon with remarkable finesse and elegance that is carried by fine and ripe, tightly woven tannins.
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Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.
An important red wine appellation in the Touraine district of the Loire, Chinon produces fanciful, light-bodied reds from the Cabernet Franc grape. Chinon also makes charming rosés from the same grape as well as white wines from Chenin blanc. But the reds give the area its fame. Often scented with fresh herbs, black tea and violets, Chinon reds show a lovely combination of fruit and acidity. However, styles have become more concentrated and ripe in recent years from improvements in vineyard management. Modern methods include planting grass between vineyard rows, using higher trellises and deleafing to increase sunlight to berries and therefore improve ripening. Even still, red Chinon is intended to be a light to medium bodied, refreshing wine to be enjoyed in its youth.
Fuller-bodied Chinons come from vineyard sites on the clay and tuffeau limestone slopes, usually from the southern exposed slopes of Cravant-les-Coteaux, and the plateau above Beaumont. Lighter styled wines come from the sand and gravel vineyards near the Loire or Vienne Rivers with the most refined examples coming from the area around Panzoult