Fournier Père et Fils Cuvée Silex (Sancerre)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

White

Uva

Sauvignon Blanc

País

France

Região

Sancerre

Denominação

Sancerre

Corpo

medium

Acidez

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201592 pts

  This comes from a six-acre vineyard of 30-year-old vines. It is steely and taut with an almost flinty character. As a contrast, the young fruit is crisp, full of citrus and green plum fruits. It is a ripe wine that has a few more months to be at its best. Wait until 2018.

• 201491 pts

  Grown on flinty soil, this strongly mineral-driven wine is structured, tense with acidity and white stone-fruit flavors. The initial crispness opens out into a concentrated, textured wine that will need to age further. Drink from late 2017.

• 201389 pts

  From vines grown on flint soil, this is a perfumed, crisp wine, hinting at almonds and spice. The background is a reminder of the soil, very mineral and severe. The wine is ready to drink.

• 201290 pts

  The silex, flint soil typical of Sancerre creates this style of crisp, very textured wine, as sharp as the soil itself. The wine is glass brittle, very fresh and with intense citrus flavors. Drink now, but better to wait until the end of 2014.

• 201091 pts

  While this is certainly herbaceous, it also carries richer fruit flavors like apricots and melon to go with the grapefruit acidity. That gives it a rounded texture, full in the mouth and with a touch of minerality. Age this impressive wine another 1–2 years.

• 200892 pts

  Silex is the French name for the flint over limestone soil that occurs in the Sancerre and Pouilly regions. There is a definite character of tight texture in this wine, very mineral while it also has ripe fruit. This is a new wine from Fournier, an impressive addition to the ran…