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Nicolas Joly - Savennières Coulée-de-Serrant 2018

Loire

White

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4.6/5 (38 customers)

96/100

Robert Parker

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2*Coup de Coeur

Hachette

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95/100

RVF

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94/100

Bettane & Desseauve

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17/20

Jancis Robinson

chenin
atypical
to decant
long-keeping wine
biodynamics

"Mythical vintage

"A beautiful golden yellow, this Coulée 2018 presents a nose of great delicacy, opening on floral, mineral (warm flint) and lemony notes. With aeration, aromas of fresh grass, menthol, puffed rice, quince and pear follow. A fresh, silky attack opens onto a supple, caressing, unctuous palate, with a fine minerality in support. The bitter orange note, so often present in this wine, stretches into a long finish. 888th harvest for Coulée de Serrant and a feeling of eternity". (Le Guide Hachette)

Features

Estate

Coulée de Serrant - Nicolas Joly

Cuvée

Coulée de Serrant

Vintage

2018

Designation

Savennières Coulée de Serrant

Region

Loire

Grape varieties

100% Chenin, âge moyen des vignes : 35/40 ans, 80 ans pour les plus vieilles

Terroirs

Shale and quartz soils

Viticulture

Organic and certified biodynamic, soil tilled partly with a horse

Harvest

Manual up to 5 successive sortings between late September and early November

Winemaking

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

Breeding

6 to 8 months in oak barrels

Alcohol content

15%

Organic

Yes

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Beautiful golden yellow colour

Nose

Elegant, with a complex bouquet of floral scents and aromas of white and yellow fruits, citrus and honey notes.

Mouth

Very expressive, oxidative, full-bodied, very long, graceful and elegant, a gastronomic wine.

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

2035

Food and wine pairing

Food and wine pairing

Enjoy with pike or zander in beurre blanc, chicken à l'angevine, lobster in sauce, foie gras with gingerbread, roast quail with apricots, very dry goat's cheese...

Coulée de Serrant - Nicolas Joly

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Bettane & Desseauve

Wine rated 94/100

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

About the wine:

Full-bodied, with a maturity in keeping with the 2018 tempo, this freewheeling wine lets the terroir express itself. The dynamic finish is remarkable, with outstanding persistence.

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

Wine rated (guide 2021) 2*Coup de Coeur (Outstanding wine)

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

About the wine:

A beautiful golden yellow, this Coulée 2018 presents a nose of great delicacy, opening on floral, mineral (warm flint) and lemony notes. With aeration, aromas of fresh grass, menthol, puffed rice, quince and pear follow. A fresh, silky attack opens onto a supple, caressing, unctuous palate, with a fine minerality in support. The bitter orange note, so often present in this wine, stretches into a long finish. 888th harvest for Coulée de Serrant and a feeling of eternity.

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) 96/100 (Extraordinary wine)

About the wine:

Harvested in five passages and with higher-than-normal yields (24 hectoliters per hectare) and around 8% botrytis, the intensely yellow 2018 Clos de la Coulée de Serrant opens with a clear, refined and finely perfumed flinty bouquet, with aromatic ripe fruit aromas, fresh, elegant notes of herbs and shale and remarkable freshness - not only for the partly terribly hot 2018 vintage, but for this epic wine in general. Generous and broad on the elegant, seamless palate, with lush but concentrated fruit and a velvety texture from fine but firm tannins, this is an excellent, persistent Coulée de Serrant that's already approachable and ends with a long, salty as well as striking finish with stimulating bitters and fresh phenols. The 2018 is incredibly fine and finely salted.

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) 95/100

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:

The extraordinary solar power of 2018 needs a few years in the cellar before revealing itself. Its strength gives a sensation of a warm torrent on the palate, then of a gentle river, drawn with a bewildering relief of flavors, percussive for some but with an uncommon personality. A white wine made for laying down, to be aired for a long time and served decanted.

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.

Jancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson

Wine rated 17/20

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Note and review by M. DAVID B. Published on 18/03/2023

Extraordinary. Millesisme 2012. Decanted the day before. It's different from so many other wines that it's worth trying.

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Note and review by M. MARC S. Published on 06/11/2021

a marvel

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Note and review by M. PHILIPPE V. Published on 29/07/2020

"A nose that lacks sharpness, with wet flowers and damp undergrowth that's not very appealing... On the palate, not much better, it's very perky (gas) and it's flat, too simple, lacking juice and precision... I have white wines at 10 euros that I prefer to this "mythical" vintage. I'd like to point out that there were 4 of us and we all felt the same way: it was like a simple, natural wine that veered slightly off course, really a big disappointment, especially at that price.... This was my first and last Nicolas Joly... I put it aside one day and when I took off the cork I thought I was opening a bottle of cider because there was so much gas inside." Same thing after 2 days ...

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Note and review by M. HERVE B. Published on 07/07/2020

As good as ever, even when very young Beautiful golden yellow color Floral scents, vine peaches, honey Lively, very mineral, powerful, good length

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Note and review by M. PIERRE H. Published on 21/05/2020

A marvel. A must-taste.

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Note and review by M. JEAN PAUL A. Published on 15/09/2024

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Note and review by M. RICHARD P. Published on 14/12/2022

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