Le Rocher des Violettes - Montlouis-sur-Loire Touche-Mitaine 2022 (sec)

Bettane & Desseauve

About the domain :

Xavier Weisskopf farms 9 hectares in Montlouis and 4 in the Touraine appellation. His terroirs are planted with old vines resulting from massal selection, which favors high-flying cuvées. The whites impress with their purity, in an appellation with no shortage of talent. An elite winemaker, one of the best addresses in the area.

Guide Hachette des vins

About the domain :

Originally from the Oise region, Xavier Weisskopf set up his own winery (17 ha, organic) in 2005. Nothing had prepared him for this profession, but his studies in Chablis introduced him to the world of wine, which led him to the "Viti" in Beaune, then to Gigondas and finally to the banks of the Loire.

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

About the wine:

Nuanced and straightforward, Touche Mitaine is precision-driven, with a beautiful, tight, saline allongevity, perfectly taming the heat of the year.

About the domain :

Clémence and Xavier Weisskopf set up their vineyard in 2005 with very little money and a cellar made of odds and ends. In recent years, they have become one of Montlouis-Sur-Loire's leading names. The 17 hectares spread between Montlouis and Touraine are cultivated at Organic: Touche Mitaine (flinty clay), Les Borderies (clay-limestone, 40-year-old vines), Le Grand Poirier (clay-sandstone, 67-year-old vines)... A myriad of terroirs has been isolated in the bottle, in whites that aim for aromatic nuance, delicacy, and expression with the integrity of dry Chenin or with residual sugar, depending on the mood of the vintage. The reds still have room for improvement.

Vinous A. Galloni

About the wine:

The Montlouis-sur-Loire Touche-Mitaine 2022 is an aromatically restrained style that focuses more on the lemony, mineral side of chenin blanc, displaying notes of autolysis due to a year spent on the lees and unctuousness on the mid-palate. It's quite well made, with delicate juice. The 2022 spent a year maturing in very old 228-liter barrels, bringing out the purity of the fruit and shaping its edges.