Details
Producer: Francois Blanchard
Vintage: 2015
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Country: France
Region: Loire Valley
Terroir: Clay, Silex
Farming: Organic
Fining/Filtration: None
Added SO2: None
ABV: 12.5%
Description
11 years old and off-dry, François Blanchard's 2015 Voila is a masterpiece fully built for the dining table.
2015, for us, remains one of the most impressive Loire Valley vintages we've tasted, albeit one that produced dense, layered and compressed wines that simply demanded years to begin unfolding to reveal their true detail and complexity.
This was even more the case in wines from old, very low yielding vineyards like this site south of Tours.
Even at this age, this sauvignon, grown on enormous fragments of silex a stones throw from Chinon, is a young wine with several decades of hugely rewarding, information-revealing cellaring ahead of it.
Right now it's sheer magic with a meal, that concentrated 2015 acidity showing with clarity and the sweetness marrying impeccably with food.
Details
Producer: Francois Blanchard
Vintage: 2015
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Country: France
Region: Loire Valley
Terroir: Clay, Silex
Farming: Organic
Fining/Filtration: None
Added SO2: None
ABV: 12.5%
Description
11 years old and off-dry, François Blanchard's 2015 Voila is a masterpiece fully built for the dining table.
2015, for us, remains one of the most impressive Loire Valley vintages we've tasted, albeit one that produced dense, layered and compressed wines that simply demanded years to begin unfolding to reveal their true detail and complexity.
This was even more the case in wines from old, very low yielding vineyards like this site south of Tours.
Even at this age, this sauvignon, grown on enormous fragments of silex a stones throw from Chinon, is a young wine with several decades of hugely rewarding, information-revealing cellaring ahead of it.
Right now it's sheer magic with a meal, that concentrated 2015 acidity showing with clarity and the sweetness marrying impeccably with food.
