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Domaine Alain Malet Réserve 2018

Touraine AOC

Domaine Malet’s standard Touraine Sauvignon is a delicious, citrusy white, and this Réserve takes it a step up in concentration. Flinty intensity, elegant minerality, superbly refreshing. It’s easily a rival to the pricy wines of next door Sancerre.

Beyond the Label

Tasting notes

Rounded, citrus intensity with herbal, smoky complexity. Long

Aroma

Flinty, herbal, grassy, lemony

Allergy information

Contains sulphites

Domaine Alain Malet Réserve 2018

More information

  • 13.0% ABV
  • 9.75 Units
  • 750.00 ml
  • 31 December, 2021

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.

"Really delicious and consistent Sauvignon Blanc. Amazing, fresh and full of character" Online Review
For the 2017 vintage
Map showing Touraine AOC
Tasting note information