Fine Wine > Loire > $20-50 > Chenin Blanc

Cellar/Tasting Notes
"Beautifully pure, with salted butter, chamomile and quinine notes lacing up a core of creamed Jonagold apple and lanolin flavors. The long, creamy finish lets the chamomile edge play out elegantly."

Cellar/Tasting Notes
This Chenin Blanc has a very open and bright aromatic profile. It has a great deal of floral fruit, but also carries a nice fresh minerality. This is present on the palate as well. There is a good deal of substance and depth here, with a full mouthfeel supported by a focused, crisp acidity and..

Cellar/Tasting Notes
A dry white wine from the Loire Valley that has a somewhat richer texture from ageing sur lie, without ageing in wood. This Chenin Blanc has a minerally, earthy character as well as a higher than average acidity.

Cellar/Tasting Notes
"... Pronounced nutty piquancy and wet stone in the nose as well as on the palate here mingle with smoky snuffed candle wick and black tea; quince and white peach...this Clos du Papillon grips so authoritatively and combines such a sense of stuffing and stone without becoming heavy or bitter than..

Cellar/Tasting Notes
"Full-on apple and quince flavors provide the richness to balance the briskness of the soil character. This is sunny and earthy at once, mouthwatering in its freshness, firmly structured for aging."