Domaine Alain Malet Réserve 2016
Touraine AOC
Loading...
Domaine Malet’s standard Touraine Sauvignon is a delicious ‘grapefruit’ white, and this Réserve version is a real step up in concentration. It even rivals wines from the famous next-door region of Sancerre. Flinty intensity and elegant minerality.
100% Money-back Guarantee
If you don’t like a wine, for whatever reason, you’ll be refunded in full. No problem.
Wine Details
- White - Dry
France- Pale Green Straw
- Sauvignon Blanc
- 9.75 Units
- 13% ABV
- 31 December 2018
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Rounded, citrus intensity with herbal, smoky complexity. Long
Aroma
Flinty, herbal, grassy, lemony
The Wine
Touraine lies on the east side of the Loire and its best wines, like the Malet Réserve, comfortably give Sancerre a run for its money. For three generations the Malet family have grown top quality grapes on classic chalk and flint-rich soils to sell to other estates. Then, in 2001, brothers Alain and Bruno Malet took control and started creating and bottling wine under their own name. They now make two levels of Sauvignon: standard Touraine, and their Réserve, for which they select grapes from older vines so the wine has even greater concentration. Buyer Jehan Sacaze was very taken with both. This Réserve has a smoky, flint, citrus and herbal aroma with stony lemony intensity. A classic with seafood or warm goat’s cheese and pear salad.
Touraine lies on the east side of the Loire and its best wines, like the Malet R
"What an excellent wine! Lots of floral notes, lovely lingering finish. Very satisfying and enjoyable"
Online Review
Loading...
