Charles Joguet Chinon Clos de la Dioterie 2015 Front Bottle Shot
Charles Joguet Chinon Clos de la Dioterie 2015 Front Bottle Shot Charles Joguet Chinon Clos de la Dioterie 2015 Front Label

Winemaker Notes

Clos de la Dioterie is the essence of finesse: a harmony of ripe fruit aromas followed by silky spice on the palate; the freshness of a just-ripe blackberry and a trace of vanilla to soften the acidity. A wine that is easy to call pretty, in the most charming sense of the word.

Professional Ratings

  • 94

    Joguet's monopole 2015 Chinon Clos de la Dioterie is from 70- to 80-year-old vines on clay-limestone soils. A bit reduced at the beginning, this is a very spicy yet also very fine and intense Cabernet Franc that has a bit of Pinot behavior. Nice paprika flavors here. The palate is very elegant, intense and juicy, with very fine tannins that carry this Cabernet to a very long, intense, salty and promising finish. It’s tightly woven, concentrated but fresh and energetic. This is another excellent, perhaps more masculine Chinon compared to the Chêne Vert.

  • 93

    The domaine's oldest vines have produced a rich, concentrated wine packed with all the smoky, red-fruit flavors of ripe Cabernet Franc. It is still firm, but the structure has opened into a generous ripeness that suggests the wine will be ready to drink from 2021.


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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.

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Chinon Wine

Touraine, France

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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

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