Château Moncontour Sec (Vouvray)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Other

Uva

Chenin Blanc

País

France

Região

Vouvray

Denominação

Vouvray

Corpo

full

Acidez

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201687 pts

  This wine is marked as sec (dry) and it is certainly that. The acidity is intense, cutting through the apple fruits and almond flavors. The wine obviously needs to soften and mature for a few months, so drink from 2018.

• 201590 pts

  Although labeled as Sec (dry), this wine has hallmarks of the sweeter wines from this estate. Through its crisp, dry texture come honey, almonds and a light hint of botrytis. It makes for a delicious wine that is likely to age well, although hard to resist now. Drink ideally fro…

• 201488 pts

  This is a ripe, full-bodied wine with already rounded texture and fresh pear flavors. It is perfumed, richly textured, the acidity a balanced part of the fruitiness of the wine. It needs to age, so drink from 2017.

• 201290 pts

  A fruity wine, it's packed with citrus, freshly peeled apples and white peaches. Acidity cuts through the ripeness, giving total freshness at this stage. It's a wine to be drunk for its fruitiness now, or aged until 2018 for more complex flavors.

• 201190 pts

  A wine that brings out so many facets of Chenin Blanc. It is rich and lightly honeyed, yet dry and rounded. Almonds and apple acidity are enhanced by black currant dustiness to give a wine that should age for several years.

• 200890 pts

  A piercingly delicious, apples and cream wine. It has the youthful freshness of Chenin Blanc, its texture rounded with a great bright acidity. Almonds are a glint in the background. Drink now, or age for 4–5 years.

• 200787 pts

  Full marks to Moncontour for indicating on the label that this is a dry wine (not always the case in Vouvray). In 2007, that dryness translates into a dominant acidity, fresh apple flavors and a texture of lemon zest. It is a crisp wine, either to be drunk now or aged for 4–5 ye…

• 200688 pts

  An intense, rounded wine, with fresh pear and apple flavors that offer freshness but also richness. Dry, but gives a softer side of Chenin, attractive now, but worth aging for 2–3 years.