2019 Les Gaudrets Savennieres
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The 2019 Savennières Les Gaudrets, derived from schists and aeolian sandy soils facing southeast, possesses a minty, fresh bouquet of spring flowers, sage, white fruits, lemon oil and crushed stones. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive with flinty dry extracts and a penetrating finish, it’s racy, harmonious and saline. Enjoy it without hesitation over the next decade.
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Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous
Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous
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The 2019 Gaudrets is an impressive, rich style of wine with huge concentration, no doubt due to losing 80% of the crop in a frost on April 4th. It's intense and ambitious, with plenty of fermentation-derived nutty oak characters and smoky bacon-derived notes, but it pulls it off. The finish is firm, long and has appealing phenolic bitterness.
The 2019 Gaudrets is not shy to come forward in a line up of Savennières. It has the ferocity of female gladiator throwing a javelin: wild, firm and uncompromising. It is clear on its winemaking inputs with its impressive smoky oak and flinty reductive character, and yet it just about gets away with it, with its silky concentration (15hL/ha yields due to frost) and focus. The pithy grapefruit-like fruit, floral and almost spicy characters stand up to the winemaking. It's hardly subtle at this young age, but it is super young and has plentiful tension. With no historical examples of this young estate's wines, we don't know how it will age. There's definitely plenty of good componentry here to go the long haul.
About the producer
Domaine Belargus rocketed to fame after receiving a perfect score for one of its very first releases. The Anjou estate was created in 2018 by French financier Ivan Massonnat and is dedicated to celebrating the special terroirs of this special corner of the Loire through the lens of Chenin Blanc.