Laurent Kraft Vouvray Sec Domaine des Lauriers 2015

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Vintage
2015

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750ML

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Winemaker Notes

On the nose the wine displays white fruit aromas, almond and hazelnut. The fruit flavors suggest pears and apples, with some orange blossoms as well.

?Accompanies charcuterie, sausage, veal stew, seafood, fish sauce, and Tarte Tatin.

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    You might not wait three days for a $20 wine to come around, but since I didn’t know it was a $20 wine, I waited. And what had seemed reductive slowly turned toward an ornate, flintlock complexity, then turned brighter, with mouthwatering mineral intensity. Pour it with salmon rillettes and consider the talents of Laurent Kraft, who took over his family’s 8.5 acres of vines in 1992 and has built up a 47-acre domaine, consistently presenting some of the cleanest, freshest wines in Vouvray.

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Laurent Kraft, France
Laurent Kraft remembers working his family’s vineyards in Vouvray alongside his grandfather when he was three years old. Laurent may be the seventh generation to farm in the Loire, but this overachiever has certainly distinguished himself by an indefatigable passion for defending Vouvray’s terroirs. After finishing studying Viticulture and Enology in the Touraine , he left for Bordeaux to pursue a degree in Commerce. He moved to the Loire in 1992 to take over the family’s small 3.5-hectare holdings, growing the domaine to 19 hectares on the prime, south-facing banks of the Loire River. Since then, Laurent has played a pivotal role in the AOC, presiding over the appellation’s technical commission as well as serving as an inspector to ensure that his peers are meeting the high standards dictated by the INAO.
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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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Vouvray Wine

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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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