A beautiful wine with layers of sweet fruit, tangerine, marzipan and honey. Simply delicious!
Stem code: 3PAP3F
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Lovely soft gold colour, ethereal and delicate nose of candied tangerines. Great purity and freshness on the attack with beautiful sweet fruit giving balance and fraicheur to the whole.
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This is a sweet and concentrated wine with complex marzipan, burnt honey and dried apricot aromas and flavours. It is rich and mouth-filling with a refreshing citrussy twist on the end.
A beautifully balanced wine with a delicate nose of candied tangerines and a purity and freshness on the palate.
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Luscious
Perfect for people who have a slightly sweet tooth and like wines that are ripe and juicy rather than sharp and acidic.
Claude Papin is a Loire icon and a thoroughly engaging conversationalist to boot. Andrew Jefford calls him a "poet of Chenin Blanc", and Jancis Robinson MW “one of the most talented wine growers in this part of the world, a true vine technician”. His approach to Chenin could be summed up in his own words: “The Chenin is made by botrytization. If there isn’t any, it always makes hard wine. Even my dry wines are made with about 50% botrytization. This translates in the wine as honeyed notes.”
Claude's wines are not always the easiest to appreciate. The presence of some botrytis in a dry wine and a slightly oxidative winemaking style produces complex, intellectual wines that often require time, food and thought. They are well worth the effort though, as any true fan of Loire wines will tell you.
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