2009 Vouvray Petillant
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More creamy and rich than the 2010. Full body, complex yeasty notes from the autolysis. Also has charming steely character and superb pristine green apple fruit. This isn't just as good as champagne, it's up there with the top prestige brands. (RH)
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Joel B. Payne, Vinous
Jancis Robinson MW
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Bright straw color with delicate bubbles. Intensely perfumed bouquet displays pear skin, nectarine, honeysuckle and citrus zest. Precise and clean on the palate, offering lively citrus fruit flavors and a deeper note of peach pit, this sparkling wine is more an expression of the variety than the process. A floral quality echoes on the long, spicy finish. Given the quality of their fruit, it is understandable why Huet concentrates on this purer kind of sparkling wine rather than the more widespread Champagne method, which masks the flaws of most overcropped chenin blancs harvested by machine in Vouvray. Dec 2014, www.vinous.com
Seems a bit more mainstream and tight than the old versions of this potentially wonderful wine. Sep 2014, www.jancisrobinson.com, Drink: 2015-2019