Philippe Gilbert, Sauvignon Blanc, Menetou-Salon, Loire Valley, France 2023 consignment and caramel

and caramel

Domaine de l’Estang’s Coteaux du Giennois Blanc comes from three separate parcels planted between 2004 and 2012 on soils of clay-limestone and flint

with cocoa powder cranberry and redcurrant notes emerging

with racy acidity wed to gleaming fruits that are just the right amount of vinous

The PlumpJack Reserve Chardonnay is a gorgeous

Philippe Gilbert, Sauvignon Blanc, Menetou-Salon, Loire Valley, France 2023 consignment and caramelPhilippe Gilberts stellar Menetou Salon Blanc is unfailingly mineral driven, yet without the straitjacketed citrusy rigidity more conventionally and commercially minded Loire Sauvignon Blanc frequently displays. A sense of lusciousness, distinct from viscosity, provides a texturally attractive counterpoint to the rapier like acidity, and nods ever so glancingly to its upstream Chenin Blanc based cousins, yet this is unmistakably Kimmeridgian grown