Champalou Vouvray Les Tries (500ML) 2015

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Vintage
2015

Size
500ML

ABV
10%

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Winemaker Notes

The fruit is sorted, grape by grape, to find the best and most concentrated grapes. Les Tries is only produced in years in which noble rot fully develops. In the last twenty years, only 5 vintages have been produced: 1996, 1997, 2003, 2009, and 2015.

Les Tries is a wine of meditation. All one needs is good company with whom to share this bottle.

Professional Ratings

  • 98
    Didier and Catherine Champalou have produced this wine five times since starting their domaine in 1983—1996, 1997, 2003, 2009 and 2015. It’s a selection done in the vineyard, singling out grapes concentrated by noble rot, then fermented slowly without added yeasts. There’s a textural quality to this wine that’s unlike any I’ve tasted from Vouvray, as if the liquid contained flavor microcrystals of ginger and honey that went right to my head, invested with an energy that made my brain tingle. The texture is pure silk, cascading in layers that hold all the peach, juicy pear and flower scents in suspension. Mystical Vouvray.
  • 96
    This unfurls with a seemingly endless supply of orange peel, almond cream, glazed pear, peach and yellow apple fruit, all while staying lithe, pure and racy. Ginger, piecrust and green tea accents fill in on the finish, adding even more range while fueling the formidable length. If all that weren't enough, this is refreshing to drink. Drink now through 2040.
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Catherine and Didier Champalou both came from vigneron families, yet their mutual sense of independence prompted the couple to brave it on their own. Since starting the domaine in 1983, their label has become one of the most highly-acclaimed in the appellation. Vouvray is home to the noble Chenin Blanc, more commonly known as Pineau de la Loire in their part of the world. The Champalou family farms 21 hectares of vineyards, embracing sustainable farming while integrating the use of the lunar calendar. Their soils are rich, deep, and aerated though regular plowing. The Champalou house style produces wines of great elegance and tenderness, highly aromatic with impeccable balance. No one comes close to copying their distinct style.

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Unquestionably one of the most diverse grape varieties, Chenin Blanc can do it all. It shines in every style from bone dry to unctuously sweet, oaked or unoaked, still or sparkling and even as the base for fortified wines and spirits. Perhaps Chenin Blanc’s greatest asset is its ever-present acidity, maintained even under warm growing conditions. Somm Secret—Landing in South Africa in the mid 1800s, today the country has double the acreage of Chenin Blanc planted compared to France. There is also a new wave of dedicated producers committed to restoring old Chenin vines.

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An important white wine appellation in the Touraine and one of the top in all of the Loire, Vouvray uniquely specializes in a wide range of styles from dry to sweet, and still to sparkling, each with its own definitive character. Vouvray is almost always 100% Chenin blanc (however up to 5% Menu Pineau is theoretically allowed but not often used).

Vouvray is also the name of a pretty little town just east of Tours on the northern bank of the Loire—its vineyards surround it to the northeast. Houses and cellars are carved out of the local tuffeau, a chalky or sandy, fine-grained limestone. Vineyards inhabit clay and gravel topsoil over tuffeau on the plateau, the best of which have a slight slope with a southerly aspect.

Chenin blanc’s high acidity and natural adaptability allow it to produce a wide range of styles with enormous success. Styles under the Vouvray name include sparkling, both Brut and Demi-Sec and still: Sec (dry) and Tendre (off-dry) as well as Demi-Sec (noticeably sweet), Moelleux (very sweet) and Liquoreaux (botrytized). Most can age about five years but the best quality versions will continue to improve over decades.

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