Menetou Salon: Domaine Jean Teiller Blanc 2010
Description
An atypically fruity white wine with delicate floral aromas. The ripe, juicy palate of this Menetou Salon blanc displays subtle citrus tastes and yields a fresh, dry finish.
- Style: White Wine, Dry (Sec), Light-bodied
- Region: Loire, Menetou Salon,
- Producer: Jean-Jacques Teiller
- Vintage: 2010
- Grape variety (Cépage): Sauvignon Blanc
- Wine pairing - drink with: White fish
- Cellarage: Best drunk within two years of the vintage.
- Vinification: Vinification takes place in stainless steel vats after the grapes have been entirely de-stalked. The wine is left on its lees for a short period of time and is then fined with bentonite and chilled to 5ºC before being filtered prior to an early spring bottling.
- Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 13%
- Full Tasting Notes (PDF): Download
Menetou Salon: Domaine Jean Teiller Blanc 2010
The Teillers' white Menetou Salon Blanc is a firm favourite chez Yapp. It has pineapple and grapefruit notes on the bouquet and a palate of succulent (almost tropical) fruit and a dry elegant finish.
What others think of this wine...
Simon Hoggart - The Spectator, March 2011 says:...a stunning wine, a Menetou-Salon made in the village of the same name. This was the home of Jacques Coeur, who was minister of finance for Charles XII, and he built a magnificent chateau here. But, again, thanks to old technology the wine he drank would be greatly inferior to the delicious drop made by Patricia and Oliver Teiller. They make only 50,000 bottles a year of their Ch. Teiller and sell half of that to visitors at the door. Menetou-Salon is the much smaller appellation next door to Sancerre, and I think it makes wines just that bit juicier, richer and fruitier – for a pound or so less. A gorgeous, silky wine.
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