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Domaine Alain Malet Réserve 2017
Touraine AOC
Domaine Malet’s standard Touraine Sauvignon is a delicious, citrusy white, and this Réserve is a real step up in concentration. It even rivals wines from famous, pricy, next-door Sancerre. Flinty intensity, elegant minerality, superbly refreshing.
Beyond the Label
Tasting notes
Rounded, citrus intensity with herbal, smoky complexity. Long
Aroma
Flinty, herbal, grassy, lemony
More information
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White - Dry
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Pale green straw
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13.0% ABV
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9.75 Units
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750.00 ml
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31 December, 2020
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. Our 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.
For the 2016 vintage
