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Nicolas Joly - Savennières Les Vieux Clos 2018

Loire

White

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93/100

Robert Parker

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92/100

Vinous

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90/100

RVF

chenin
powerful
hairy
concentrate
biodynamics

"[...] this blend of five Savennières plots seems to express an impressive power of this vintage with 10% botrytis. Relief arrives after aeration, with a certain roughness on the palate, leading to a seductive finish, stimulated by a high concentration of dry extracts." (Le Guide RVF 2021) A Loire white of undeniable charm.

Features

Estate

Coulée de Serrant - Nicolas Joly

Cuvée

Les Vieux Clos

Vintage

2018

Designation

Savennières

Region

Loire

Grape varieties

100% Chenin

Terroirs

Soils of schist, quartz and sand. Average age of vines: 18-20 years

Viticulture

Biodynamic since 1981, soil cultivation partly with a horse

Harvest

100% hand-picked up to 5 successive selections between late September and early November

Winemaking

Respect for natural fermentation processes, exclusive use of yeasts indigenous to the vineyard

Breeding

In non-new oak barrels, but sometimes vinified in vats

Alcohol content

15%

Organic

Yes

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Intense yellow colour

Nose

On powerful aromas of ripe fruit

Mouth

Intense and powerful, with great complexity and a remarkable finish. Oxidative touch.

Serve

Decant at 14°C

Open

Already quite open despite its youth, we nevertheless invite you either to let it rest a little in the cellar or to open it 24 hours before tasting by decanting.

Drink before

2027

Production

Approx. 20,000 bottles

Food and wine pairing

Food and wine pairing

Enjoy with blanquette de veau, pike or pike-perch in beurre blanc, poultry with morel mushrooms, chicken à l'angevine, lobster in sauce, roast quail with apricots, very dry goat's cheese...

Coulée de Serrant - Nicolas Joly

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Bettane & Desseauve

Domain rated (2025 guide) 3*Stars (High-quality production, a benchmark in its sector)

About the domain :

La Coulée de Serrant is a wine-growing Eden, a place where life exults. Nicolas Joly, a pioneer of biodynamic viticulture, has made his wine a world-renowned brand. He can also count on the vision of his daughter Virginie to continue raising this estate to the top. Four hectares in Savennières and four hectares in Roche-Aux-Moines, a vineyard grazed by sheep, pecked by chickens, worked by hand, in symbiosis with nature. Observation, experimentation, model viticulture and a must-see estate.

Guide Hachette des vins

Guide Hachette des vins

Domain rated (guide 2025) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)

About the domain :

This venerable 7-hectare vineyard, planted with old chenin vines clinging to schist slopes, was created by the Cistercians in 1130, and is one of the few monopoly appellations in France. Strengthened over the centuries by illustrious and crowned connoisseurs, its aura has taken on an international dimension since Nicolas Joly, the French "pope" of biodynamics, presides over its destiny, accompanied today by his daughter Virginie. The wine derives its original, unique character from grapes harvested at over-ripeness - or botrytized - in four or five passages. In the cellar, we don't use new wood to mask the terroir, but rather 500-l barrels. And as little intervention as possible.

Gault & Millau Wine Guide

Guide des Vins Gault & Millau

Domain rated Recommended (Recommended)

About the domain :

Nicolas Joly is now accompanied by his daughter Virginie. Without touching the father figure, we must admit that the wines have become more precise and delicate in recent years. La Coulée de Serrant is now at the height of the quality of its terroir. A schist terroir that gives the wine length, precision and subtle sparkle. The wines need time and, above all, aeration.

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

Rated (guide 2021) 93/100 (Wonderful wine)

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

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

Wine rated (2021 guide) 90/100

Domaine rated (2025 guide) 2*Stars (These great estates, often blessed with fabulous terroirs, are must-haves which, because of their consistency and the excellence of their production, must be included in the cellars of discerning wine lovers).

About the wine:

Still full of carbon dioxide and decadent baked apple flavors, this blend of five Savennières parcels seems to express the impressive power of this vintage with 10% botrytis. Relief arrives after aeration, with a certain roughness on the palate, leading to a seductive finish, stimulated by a high concentration of dry extracts.

About the domain :

The exceptional Coulée de Serrant vineyard stretches along the edge of a schistose cliff falling directly into the Loire, near Angers. The nature of the site and the quality of its exposure have enabled it to stand out from the crowd for centuries. Restored by Denise Joly in the 1960s, the estate was taken over by her son Nicolas. This brilliant agitator of ideas is a fundamentalist of biodynamic viticulture, which he has made his own at La Coulée de Serrant since 1981, when it was first certified. Nicolas Joly's daughter Virginie looks after the estate. While the latest vintages are endowed with a valiant intrinsic energy, aromatic deviations can spoil the purity that could be revealed by these mythical Loire terroirs.

Vinous A. Galloni

Vinous A. Galloni

Wine rated 92/100

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